Point of View

The narrative unfolds from the first-person perspective of the unnamed female narrator. For the most part, the narrator writes about her experiences in past-tense, but there are occasional diversions into present tense. These diversions emphasize the relative importance of the events being described, given that present-tense generally draws a reader more immediately and closely into the action.

The narrative perspective can also be defined as being that of the so-called “unreliable narrator.” This is a term used to describe a narrator who is not necessarily trustworthy, or one who cannot be trusted to tell the complete truth. There are a number of reasons to suspect that this particular narrator might fall into that general category. There is, for example, relatively little evidence that she actually is the journalist that she tells people she is; therefore, there is some question as to whether she is telling...