With many of the other stories being told through the perspective of the main character, in a first-person narrative, it was easy to get a sense of what they were feeling or empathize with them. The novel What Maisie Knew by Henry James is a story about a young girl caught in the middle of her parents’ divorce. The way the story is told by a third person point of view, the narrator makes it tough to see things through Maisie’s perspective. In a way that is exactly the way she felt, lost. In the novel, there were some adults that helped the most and some that helped the least. The very beginning of the novel begins with the custody battle. It offers insight on the way Maisie will be treated. “She was abandoned to her fate. What was clear to
