Point of View

The novel is written from the third person point of view. This third person narrator is limited to the protagonist Greta Work’s perspective. This means that throughout the novel, the narrator is positioned in closest proximity to Greta’s consciousness. Because of this close psychic distance, the third person narrator’s manner of describing the narrative world is entirely dictated by Greta’s way of seeing, perceiving, and processing the world around her. The reader might refer to the opening page of Chapter 1 in order to better understand this relationship between the narrator and protagonist. The narrator says, “Perhaps because Big Swiss was so deadpan, and because Greta couldn’t see her face, her voice conjured a bunch of random crap. Such as a dog’s nipples. Such as wet pine needles. Such as Greta herself, hiding in a closet, surrounded by mink coats...