Elbow Room | Style
First Person Narrator
Though Mcpherson focuses attention on Paul and Virginia throughout "Elbow Room," he also makes it clear that the first-person narrator has a life independent of them. This fact is established early with the editor's initial assessment of the story that is to come, in which he or she muses that the narrator has a defiant attitude. Throughout the story, readers are given brief dialogues between the editor and the narrator that interrupt the focus on Paul and Virginia. Though the narrator is a friend of the central couple and interacts with them frequently,...
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