Point of View

Each of the stories in You Think It, I'll Say It is told from a different character's point-of-view; some are told from the first person perspective, others from a third person limited perspective. Many of those told in first person are done so from a narrative distance, as the narrator is telling a story about what happened to them several years in the past, often in order to comment on these events with the knowledge they have accrued since. In “The World Has Many Butterflies,” for example, Dana recalls sleeping with her friend's boyfriend in college, and how this experience allowed her to break out of her shell socially. Now an adult, Dana realizes that what she did was morally wrong, but her commentary is astute and mature: “It would be easy for me to be horrified by who I was more than twenty years...