Tarryn Fisher Writing Styles in The Wrong Family

Tarryn Fisher
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Wrong Family.
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Tarryn Fisher Writing Styles in The Wrong Family

Tarryn Fisher
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Wrong Family.
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Point of View

The Wrong Family is written from a third person point of view. Though the chapters shift between Juno and Winnie's perspectives, the narrative remains in third, moving inside and depicting each woman's particular psychic and emotional experience. By maintaining the third person voice across the novel, the author creates a sense of cohesion to the narrative whole. The narrator, however, is not omniscient. Therefore, though she can access Juno and Winnie's thoughts and feelings, she does not regard or describe those of the other characters. In this way, the narrative belongs solely to the two protagonists.

The third person point of view also enacts the distanced relationships both Juno and Winnie have with themselves. Both Juno and Winnie have dark secrets. Their lives in the narrative present are deeply impacted by the complicated mistakes they have made in the past. The third person voice, therefore...

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