How To Be An Other Woman Analysis

Moore’s ‘How to be an Other Woman’ is written in the second person narration where the author the reader becomes like the main character. Unlike third and first person narration, second person point of view is rarely used as it ‘remains [in] an idiosyncratic and experimental form’ (Burroway, J. 2011 pg. 304). This perspective works by assigning the reader to become the main character and through the use of the pronoun ‘you’, the story is read similarly to an inner monologue or instruction manual. Contrasting the first and third points of view in Updikes ‘A&P’ and Hemingway’s ‘Hills like white elephants’, the reader can’t draw their own conclusions as they are forced into becoming a pre-designed character. Also this particular point of view