Part of Your World

Content Warning: This section features discussions of emotional abuse.

Alexis Montgomery is one of the narrators and protagonists of Part of Your World. She is a 37-year-old ER doctor at Royaume Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and comes from a family of prestigious surgeons who have worked at Royaume since the hospital opened 125 years earlier. Alexis says she was “[b]red, molded, groomed, and told from [her] earliest age that [she] was destined to work at Royaume Northwestern and [she] was not to take [her] husband’s name if [she] ever got married” (35). The Montgomerys have extreme pride in their family legacy, which highly influences Alexis, although she chose to be a doctor of emergency medicine as she thought it would be the best way to help people. Previous to the novel’s timeframe, Alexis’s decision to go into emergency medicine rather than surgery is the only decision she has made against her parents’ wishes. The flipside of her family’s controlling nature is that she is also quite sheltered regarding society at large. Until she meets Daniel, Alexis takes most of her privilege for granted and does not have a full grasp of others’ circumstances outside of her insular community.