Zoë Wicomb employs various different uses of perspectives throughout “Disgrace.” The story focuses on three main characters with the narrator focusing on the perspectives of Grace and Fiona. However, Wicomb interestingly chose for the narrator to switch from third to first person narration a couple of times early in the story. After Fiona begins the story by asking Grace for her secret, the narrator explains Grace’s thoughts from the third person, “Grace stares at her blankly” before strangely changing to the first person, “But I don’t have secrets anymore.” The same sort of perspective change happens just a few paragraphs later. After Grace realizes that Fiona was asking about her secret to her youthful look, the narrator explains, “Grace knows it’s flattery” before switching, “No, you must just keep busy, that’s what I say, that’s what keeps you young.” Perhaps the narrator is not actually changing perspectives, rather just telling over the thoughts of the character without explicitly mentioning it as such. This would perhaps fit with Wicomb’s choice to not include quotes around dialogue sections, as the story begins, “So Grace, what’s your secret? asks Fiona.”