Narrator and point of view

Beejay Silcox’s short story “Slut Trouble” features a first-person narrator with limited knowledge – she can only share things with the reader that she has found out as a character. The narrator, Laura, is also one of the most important characters in the story.

The narrator’s limited knowledge can be observed through the fact that she does not have access to the other characters’ perspectives, simply because the point of view lies with her. For example, Laura asks Mr Henderson, Megan’s father, to explain his statement, which shows that she does not know his inner thoughts:

Mr Henderson says that only sluts get into the kind of trouble Kimberly Watson has clearly gotten herself into.
‘What kind of trouble is that?’ I ask him.
‘Slut trouble, Laura, slut trouble.’ (ll. 87-90)

At times, the narrator seems to have insight into Megan’s mind: “Megan is winning, which is how she likes it” (l. 16). In another example, sh...

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