The Vacationers

What is the narrator point of view in the novel, The Vacationers?

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This novel is written in third-person limited, which means that the reader can only see what's happening from the character on which the chapter is currently focused. This is a clever way of writing the novel, because some characters are more observant, while others are very myopic. As a result, when the point of view is Sylvia's, for example, the reader gets a glimpse of what everyone is doing because she is an observant character. The same can be said of Carmen, who is an outsider anyway. By contrast, Bobby is so self-centered that when his point of view is controlling the reader only experiences his own thoughts and feelings, and the rest of the gang goes unnoticed.

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