s short
story is told from two points of view; the narrator and Eveline, both in
third person. We can differentiate between these two points of view by paying attention to what
is known by the person relaying the story. The narrator sees her sitting by the window in the
beginning of the story: She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. This
narrator describes the scene, the history that took place on Evelines street, the people who
lived there before and what life was like. Then, the point of view becomes inside Evelines head:
Home! . . . Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never
dreamed of being divided. The story alternates between the narrators view on Evelines story and
Evelines thoughts.
The purpose of these two points of view give us both the
realities surrounding Evelines predicamenther mother and brother are dead, her other brother is
often gone, her father is a...
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