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Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old [pocketbook] gave her a feeling of importance such as she had not enjoyed for years. . . . A man with keen eyes, who sat opposite to her, seemed to like the study of her small, pale face. It puzzled him to decipher what he saw there. In truth, he saw nothing—unless he were wizard enough to detect a poignant wish, a powerful longing that the cable car would never stop anywhere, but go on and on with her forever. Source: Chopin, Kate. “A Pair of Silk Stockings.” The Awakening and Selected Short Stories. Project Gutenberg, 11 Mar. 2006. Web. 12 May 2011. Which point of view does this excerpt illustrate? third-person limited second-person third-person omniscient first-person

Answer 1

C

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Answer 2

Answer: third-person omniscient

This excerpt is narrated from the third-person omniscient point of view. The third person refers to a narrator who describes the scene, but does not participate in it. Instead, he is watching the characters, and describing them. However, an omniscient point of view is one that is able to discover everything that goes on in the story, including the characters' thoughts and feelings. This is similar to the perspective that a being such as a god would have. In this case, the narrator describes the characters as an spectator, but also has access to their thoughts and feelings.