Question

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. Source: Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1847. Google Books. Web. 16 May 2011. What is the narrator's point of view?

Answer 1

I believe that in Jane Eyre the narrators' point of view was first person. Jane told her own story in the novel.

Answer 2

First Person

Step-by-step explanation:

Point of view refers to the perspective or angle from which the story or literature work is seen and told. There are three narrative points of view: First Person, Second Person, and Third Person.

When a story is told by the First Person point of view, the narrator is one of the main characters and they involve themselves in the story by using first-person pronouns such as "I," "me," "my," and "mine" and "We," "us," "our" and "ours".

When reading the passage provided, we can identify that the narrator's point of view is First Person because he or she uses the pronoun "We": "We had been wandering..."