Point of View

Casati employs the typical storytelling style of the first-person narrator throughout the majority of the novel. Clytemnestra is the protagonist and narrator who describes her thoughts and feelings with detail and clarity. Clytemnestra is a highly emotional individual who is guided by her desire for justice, which manifests in an obsession with revenge against those who have wronged her. Much of the narration is devoted to this preoccupation with revenge, and includes copious amounts of planning for revenge against the murderer of her children. Further, she often describes the grief surrounding the losses of those close to her such as her children and husband. The interiority into Clytemnestra’s mind that this first-person narration aids in Casati’s goal to create a complex and sympathetic view of her character, in the sense that the reader is able to understand that her actions, although violent, were...