Point of View

Most of Mexican Gothic is written from a third-person limited point of view from Noemí’s perspective, with the brief exception of a third-person omniscient perspective at the beginning of the novel. This omniscient point of view is used in the opening scenes of the novel in a way that playfully deceives the reader into thinking that the book may have a broader scope (as it lingers on the perspectives of the drivers waiting outside the Tuñons’ parties) or be focused on a couple (as it inhabits Hugo’s point of view as Noemí travels home with him in a cab). This omniscience calls attention to how Noemí is used to being viewed as a woman in the world. The reader first glimpses her not necessarily as the protagonist of the novel, but as part of a larger scene, a girl attending a party...