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> 「彼女はのそのそと緩慢な動きで大きなベッド **の向って左側** に寄って仰向けに寝た。」

This sentence made me question whether my understanding of 「向う」is correct or
not. It may be important to mention that the story is told from the
perspective of a first-person-narrator (and this narrator is in the same room
with mentioned 「彼女」). From my understanding of this definition,

むか・う〔むかふ〕【向かう】 １
ある物・方向を正面に見るように位置する。顔やからだをその方向に向ける。「鏡に―・って化粧する」「舞台に―・って右側を上手という」(<https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E5%90%91%E3%81%8B%E3%81%86/#jn-214576>)

the girl moves **to the left side of the bed, seen from the perspective of the
narrator** (or anybody else) **facing the bed**. I tried to make this a little
bit clearer with the attached image.

In other terms, my question is, if I understood it correctly that 「 **向って**
」means that the directional information of “left side” is given from a
viewpoint looking at “the large bed”.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5SKMi.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5SKMi.png)
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grammar meaning words
「の向って」The point-of-view in this sentence/ when giving directional information after 「向って」
Your understanding is correct. The full sentence would be something like:

> 彼女はのそのそと緩慢な動きで大きなベッドの、ベッドに向って左側に寄って仰向けに寝た。

where ベッドに向かって is like an afterthought you'd put inside parentheses. The
writer specified it because "the left side of the bed" changes depending on
whether you're looking at the bed or laying on it.
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