But what, exactly, is point of view? Alas, hardly anybody seems to agree. Novelist Darin Strauss insists that “point of view is simply the workings of the mind of the character who is telling or experiencing the story.” Literary agent Peter Rubie says point of view is “a camera-lens position.” Creative nonfiction guru Philip Gerard says point of view can be either first or third person and varies according to how much access the storyteller has to the minds of characters.
