Narrator and point of view

The short story “How the Nurse Feels” by Greg Changnon is a first-person account of a character-narrator, Tess Powell. This is evident from the beginning of the text, through the use of the personal pronoun "I": "I play the Nurse..." (l. 1).

The narrator has a subjective and limited point of view on the events she accounts. For instance, Tess knows only what she observes and what she hears about Tiger: "I hear he’s stoned most of the schoolday and the only reason he’s in drama club is that it’s a condition of his school probation." (ll. 33-35)

But she does not know from the start that he is a diabetic. When she finds out it makes her question her opinion of him: "The night before we open, I go crazy over how much I don’t know about Tiger." (ll. 172-173)...