Point of View

The short story is written from a third person limited point of view. This means that the third person narrator remains closest to the main character Harvey Weinstein's consciousness. This narrative vantage, therefore, enacts Harvey's delusional understanding of himself and relationship with the world around him. As the story unfolds, the narrator inhabits Harvey's psyche more intimately, presenting his most private thoughts and feelings as truths about Harvey's character and the narrative world. For example, as Harvey gets ready for the day, his mind moves through the complexities of the case against him. "He had survived an assassination attempt. Because how else could you describe what they were trying to do to him? The shocking, incredible resources they had marshaled against one man? He was just a man, just one man in red socks and a too-thin T-shirt, an ache in his left molar, a...