Narrator and point of view

The short story “The North London Book of the Dead” by Will Self is told by a first-person narrator, who is also the story’s main character. The narrator presents the events as he experiences them and has no knowledge of the living-dead situation until he meets his mother in Crouch End. When he meets her, he is curious about how the realm of the living converges with the realm of the dead. He pushes his mother to give him as many details as possible, to understand what he experiences:

Whaddya mean, that’s it? Who decides which part of London? How is it that no one’s ever heard of this before? How come people don’t notice all the dead people clogging up the transport system? What about paying bills? (p. 124, ll. 26-29)

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