Point of View

This novel is written from both an omniscient third-person narrator and the first person point of view of Pip. The viewpoint of the omniscient third-person narrator is important because it allows the reader to have insight into the thoughts and emotions of all of the characters. Pip, Adele, and Clare are all characters of focus with the narrator telling the bulk of the story through the eyes of these characters. For instance: “It was darker here; no light from the houses reached this part of the park and it took Pip’s eyes a second or two to work out what she was seeing. And then she knew. Lying side by side on the grass, staring into the starless sky, were Fern and Catkin” (142). The reader learns about what Fern and Catkin are doing as Pip through Pip’s eyes as she sees the two...