Narrator and point of view

The events in “The Inevitable” by Daniel A. Hoyt are told by a first-person narrator who is also the main character. 

Throughout the story, some things are stated indirectly or kept between the lines. For example, the narrator hints at her wild youth when she thinks about the time she was pregnant with Lacey: “I could say, Hoo boy, I used to do much, much worse things. I’ve got a doozy of a story from when I was pregnant with you, but I don’t think that will supply the necessary salve for her wound” (ll. 100-102). This implies that the narrator enjoyed partying when she was young and that her behavior was even more reckless in the past than it is now.

The narrator is also unreliable because of her prejudices. After she finds out about the killing of Michael Brown, the narrator automatically assumes that all police officers are brutal. Because of the firs...