Point of View

Throughout her collection "Your Duck Is My Duck," the author employs a variety of points of view, each one distinct to the story in which it is employed. She tells "Your Duck Is My Duck" and "Cross Off and Move On" from the first person points of view of two unnamed narrators. "Taj Mahal," "Merge," "The Third Tower," and "Recalculating," on the other hand are told from third person points of view.

The first person perspective in "Your Duck Is My Duck" allows the author to seemingly inhabit the interior of her narrator in a more nuanced manner than the third person might provide. As the narrator attempts to delude herself, hiding behind a web of numbing agents and social illusions, the reader becomes simultaneously immersed in her hazy world and consciousness. The dulling effects of her lifestyle choices on her ability to understand herself...