Point of View

The vast majority of the stories in the collection are told in the third person, including each of the stories featuring the Lord, while a select few are told in the first person. The stories told in first-person tend to be the shortest stories in the collection (a paragraph or less), and reveal their perspective only subtly. A primary example is the story "Museum" (61) which reads, in its entirety: "We were not interested the way we thought we would be interested." While the narrative use of "I" tends to be the most common alert of a first-person narrator, the (repeated) use of "we" in this sentence is confirmation of the same type of perspective.

Frequently, in stories that are told in the third-person, the narration will insert a sly, deprecating comment on its own, as if it were a separate character, inserting its own opinions...