Point of View

I really enjoyed reading this book. I definitely liked it much more than the first two books for the class. I like reading about both world wars, and stories from that time period. For this particular novel I felt that it was interesting that West chose to tell the story from only Jenny's point of view. I have read many war texts bot fiction and non-fiction in Dr. Haytock's Soldier, Identity, and Trauma class and on my own, and most often they are from the soldier's point of view. This novel gives the view of the story from someone on the outside. She has no experience with what Kitty is going through due to the fact that she is not married.She also cannot really say how Chris is feeling, she can only base what the reader is told on what she sees and what the other characters tell her. This definitely leaves some gaps in the story. The reader never gets to know what is truly going on inside Chris' head even though the story is about him and his journey back to his current life. It would have also been interesting to hear the story from Margret Grey's point of view. She was content with her life the way it was, and then all of  sudden a boy she once planned on marrying, who is now a grown wounded soldier is searching for her. This likely pulls her back into the like she at one time dreamed of having with him, and knowing what was going through her mind every step of the way would be interesting.