The Point Of Point Of View In Capote's "My Side Of The Matter" And Cheever's "Five-Forty-Eight"

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or theirs, that's your own business. It's my word against
Eunice's and Olivia-Ann's, and it should be plain enough to
anyone with two good eye which one of us has their wits
about them. I just want the citizens of the USA to know
the facts that's all (p.189).

Already the reader is aware that this is a one sided story and that the
narrator has certain biases' towards certain characters. Which keeps the
reader interested, wanting to read more to find out what happened, and to
see if there is a justification for this narrator's accusations.
The next thing that this particular point of view reveals is the
narrator's personal regrets, which is a ploy to get the reader to feel
what he feels along with him in order for him to successfully get the
reader into his shoes. He tells us the story but not without throwing in
his two cents of how the whole situation could have been avoided. There
seems to be a sense ...

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said. He's not any sort of man whatsoever. The
very idea of this little runt running around claiming to
be a man! Why, he isn't even of the male sex! (p.191).

The aunt's constant attacks on his manhood and his feeling of helplessness
against these two women is what the narrator uses to pull the readers to
his side of the story.
The feeling the reader has for the narrator's wife shifts from like
to dislike along with the narrator. Even though in the third paragraph of
the story the narrator tells us of his regrets of marrying her, her opening
dialogue confuses the reader as to why he could feel this way. After her
aunts violent attack on his manhood, ...

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