Point of View

The novel is written in third person from the omniscient perspective of a narrator. The point of view is limited to one character at at time, even when multiple characters are present in a specific scene. For example, Claire McAdam meets Ella May Wiggins by chance in Washington, D.C. The entire chapter is focused on Claire's point of view, as in that meeting. The reader knows what Ella says when she speaks up to the senator who has joined Claire's group on their tour, but does not know what she is thinking or feeling at that point. Claire's feelings and thoughts take the forefront during this chapter. In a later chapter, the narrator mentions that Ella made the trip to Washington, D.C., but never reveals what Ella was thinking during that meeting.

There are other meetings in which the reader is limited to...