Point of View

Choi uses the third-person point of view in this novel. This is not the case because the two characters are referring to by the narrator using either their first names or third-person pronouns. For instance, one of the first sentences in Penny’s opening section of the novel: “Penny knew that whatever Madison Chandler was going to say, she wasn’t going to enjoy it” (2). The opening sentence in Sam’s first section reads: “Sam enjoyed an odd commute” (12). This third-person narrator focuses on two characters, Sam and Penny, and is omniscient as far as each of these characters is concerned. The narrator’s access to each of these characters’ thoughts, emotions, and activities is so complete that the novel feels at times as if it is written from the first-person point of view.

The first-person point of view used in the text messages exchanged...