Point of View

In terms of Atwood's style, point of view is something she plays with frequently, and no character has definitive ownership over the point of view. Atwood shifts constantly between third-person close and first-person close perspectives. She does not follow a particular pattern. At some points in the text, when Toby tells a story in the first-person close, we are meant to infer that Toby is telling the Crakers the story of Zeb for Zeb. However, in the sections which specify Toby as the storyteller, Zeb also takes on his own point of view. These sections tend to be third-person close.

Atwood also tends to abstract further and use an omnipresent perspective. She enacts her voice as the author in order to drop in and share her thoughts from an omniscient perspective, and she tends to employ this tactic more often in the third-person close sections...