How is third person used in "Interpreter of Maladies," and what is its effectiveness?

This short story is
written from a third-person limited omniscient perspective, with
the limited omniscient focus on the character of Mr. Kapasi.The narrator begins to tell us of
Mr. Kapasi's thoughts and feelings very early in the text, and this continues as the tour guide
begins to develop hopes that he might have some kind of long-distance relationship with Mrs.
Das, as she reveals her terrible secret to him in the hopes that he can assuage her pain (or
guilt), and as he realizes that the ideas he entertained about the pair of them will never come
to be.This narrative point of view draws us closer to Mr. Kapasi, encouraging us to sympathize
with and relate to him more than any other character; we are more apt to judge Mr. and Mrs. Das
for their poor parenting and bad...