Point of View

The speaker employs a variety of points of view. Sometimes, she uses first person plural to bring the reader into a sense of a shared experience with her. She says, ""The only view my window offers is the blurred suggestion of two poplars, ink-wash contours wavering four or five meters up from where the street lies hidden; all else is white. But can we really call it white? That vast, soundless undulation between this world and the next, each cold water molecule formed of drenched black darkness" (28). By saying, "we," she unites the reader with herself. Sometimes, she even unites the rest of humanity with herself when she explores universal topics through the first person plural voice. For example, she relates: "We lift our foot from the solid ground of all our life lived thus far and take that perilous step out into the empty...