Point of View

Come and Get It is written from the third-person point of view. Throughout the novel, the third-person narrator divides her attention between the three main characters’ perspectives. This means that in some chapters, the narrator’s access is limited to Agatha Paul’s point of view, while in others her access is limited to Millie Cousins’ and Kennedy Washburn’s points of view. In each of their respective chapters, the third-person narrator will inhabit the protagonists’ consciousnesses and depict the narrative world according to their unique perceptions of it.

The reader can begin by studying the opening chapters of the novel in order to better understand this dynamic. In Chapter 1, for example, the narrator focuses on Agatha’s perspective. Therefore, when the narrator describes Millie in these scenes, she is describing her according to how Agatha sees her: “She was the type of student that...