The Kitchen God's Wife | Style
First-Person Narration
The Kitchen God’s Wife is an interesting example of a first-person narrative because of its complexity. The story is told from both Pearl’s and Winnie’s points of view, and Winnie talks about both the past and the present. The structure of the novel, with the mother and daughter as the speakers, suggests indirect communication between the two of them through the reader. Of course, by the end of the novel, this has become direct communication as the two women share the secrets they have hidden from each other.
As Winnie tells her life story to...
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