Point of View

You Are Here is written from the third person point of view. Throughout the novel, this third person narrator alternates between depictions of Marnie’s and Michael’s storylines. In Part One, “Imaginary Photographs,” for example, the narrator is situated closest to Marnie’s psyche and describes the narrative world via her perspective. When the narrator remarks that in all of Marnie’s “youthful visions of the future, of the job she might have, the city and home she might live in, the friends and family around her, Marnie . . . never thought that she’d be lonely,” the narrator is inhabiting Marnie’s consciousness (3). She describes Marnie the way that Marnie sees herself. The same is true of the narrator’s depictions of Michael in the subsequent chapter “Might forces beneath your feet.” In this chapter, the narrator shifts away from Marnie’s world and moves...