It seems rare to get a story told almost entirely in second
person. Most are in third or first person, or will have dialogue and some
description in second person, but this story is entirely in second and it makes it
personal. This isn’t a story about a girl’s anxiety or past, but the reader’s.
They are the ones sitting in the orchestra and listening to the music. This pulls
the reader even further into the story because they have a vested interest. It does
also sound like how a person really talks to him/herself. The voice in our head
addresses us in the second person and that is the narrator, the little voice in
our head; the source of most anxiety.
I think the structure is interesting. It begins in the
present and then moves between the present and the past, but it does so in
logical places. So this really does sound like a stream of thought going back
and forth throughout time and space.
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