Question

9. Read the passage from “A Gold Slipper” by Willa Cather The Gold Slipper An elderly man, with very marked features and iron-grey hair, sat in the fifth row of the stalls, on the right-hand aisle. He was a bony man, and the people behind him noticed him and thought he looked strong. He had heard Bonanni in her best days and many great lyric sopranos from Patti to Melba, and he was thinking that none of them had sung the mad scene better than Cordova, who had only been on the stage two years, and was now in New York for the first time. Cordova herself was altogether intent on what she was doing and was not thinking of her friends, of Lushington, or Logotheti, nor of the bony man in the stalls; certainly not of society, though it was richly represented by diamonds in the subscriber's tier. Which point of view is used in the passage? first-person omniscient third-person limited third-person

Answer 1

Third person, as it seems the narrator has nothing to do with the story directly. 

Answer 2

It is an omniscient third person point of view.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the passage provided, we see the unknown narrator telling us about the situation and the characters. Even though there is no direct association of the narrator with the characters in the story, he seems to know what the characters are feeling, even their innermost thoughts and unspoken feelings. This form of narration where the narrator or speaker is capable of knowing the inside nature and emotions of the characters is a form of third person omniscient narration. There is no relation or association of the speaker and the characters but he knows the feelings of all the characters and makes the storytelling more in depth and meaningful for the readers.