Point of View

The point of view of the stories differs throughout the collection. is "Georgina Requeni or The Chosen One” is told from a third-person narrator in the present tense. The narrator sticks close to Georgina and recounts many of her innermost thoughts and emotions. There is a distance, though, that the narrator maintains to separate herself from the hyperbolic, absurd, and dramatic statements that Georgina makes. There is something close to condescension in the narration as it relates to the early and foolhardy days of Georgina’s young, narcissistic life. In the end, though, the narrator finds sympathy for Georgina.

“Early Beginnings or Ars Poetica,” is told in by the first-person unnamed narrator in the present tense. The mind of the narrator is imaginative and reliant upon a dream logic that does not quite ever add up. Paranoid delusions about horses and lions which gain symbolic...