Point of View

Our Country Friends is written from a third person free indirect point of view. This means that throughout the novel, the third person narrator moves between each of the main character's distinct vantage points. At the start of Act 1, "The Colony," the narrator remains closest to Senderovsky's perspective, thus building the narrative world and establishing its stakes through his lens. For example, while he is preparing for his friends' arrival at the House on the Hill property, the narrator says "By noon tomorrow, his best friends, the ones who had been so hard to bring together during previous summers, would finally unite, brought together by the kernels of a growing tragedy to be sure, but brought together nonetheless, in his favorite place on earth" (5). This sentiment is distinct to Senderovsky. He sees the coming time at the house as promising and happy, despite how his...