Point Of View In Everything Is Green By David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace’s short story Everything is Green provides the narrator Mitch’s perspective on his relationship with Mayfly through first person point of view. It shows the emotions of desperation and a crisis that Mitch feels if he loses Mayfly. Through these emotions, he also has sudden realization that she is a young woman and cannot be held back on what she wants to do with her life. Mitch’s tone of voice is quizzical at first because he does not understand the reasons why Mayfly see’s differently than him. Out of desperation Mitch is stating all that he invested in that relationship, mentioning “Every thing that is inside me, I have gave you” (Wallace 58) and yet she seems to not want him at all. Mayfly has grown out of “love” with

He does not see that the “grass is greener”, but only pointing out the bad it is causing to his truck and so on. “The other trailers are not green, and my card table out with puddles is not green...” (58), this is where Mitch’s point of view affects his emotions with how he deals with Mayfly’s point of view. They are clashing and not completely talking about what is happening between them. Which is the separation that he feels when he realizes that she is leaving his side. Mayfly does not go too in depth with what she is thinking when she speaks to him. It seems as though Mitch’s description of how she is looking out into the distance with a brighter perspective than him implies how young her heart is with seeing the upside of a bad situation. Mitch is an old man that feels as though he is running out of time. “I got to use some time that is still mine to make every thing feel right” (58) and Mitch’s objective here is to tell Mayfly the effect of his age does not allow him to have any more time to find another. He wants to make “every thing” to remain the same. Although it is affecting how honest he is being with himself, but he does not see how Mayfly can have this bright