Narrator and point of view

The events in the short story “The Guilt” by Rayda Jacobs are told by a third-person narrator. The narrator follows Lilian and presents the action from her perspective: “In that moment she understood that it took very little to pull a trigger, and that the distance between rational thought and insanity was no distance at all.” (p. 129, ll. 21-23)

The narrator is limited to what Lilian experiences. Consequently, readers only get to know Lilian’s...