The Point of Point of View in Capote's "My Side of the Matter" and Cheever's "Five-Forty-Eight" Point of view is an essential element to consider when reading literature of any kind. How an author chooses to tell a story, directly affects how and what the reader sees and feels. Most authors write their stories with a certain point of view in order to keep the reader interested and to help them better understand the characters and their situations. In Truman Capote's, "My Side of the Matter", and John Cheever's, "Five-Forty- Eight", these