#narrative-perspective

#narrative-perspective

Kushal certainly has pretensions toward neutrality, even if he isn't strictly neutral. This makes him an effective narrator, as you point out. But it's the pride that Kushal takes in his neutrality that really interests me. I think he savors the idea that he exists at a remove from his family; it makes him feel unusual, even exceptional. The irony being, of course, that everyone around Kushal is equally convinced of his or her own exceptionalism.

"I was thinking a lot about some of the sharp, art-prone, highly self-conscious girls I was friends with as a kid, and about my sisters, who also fit that description."