Pomegranate Seed | Style

Point of View
The narrative point of view in Wharton’s ‘‘Pomegranate Seed’’ is third-person limited. In a work of fiction related from a third-person limited point of view, the narrator is not a character in the story, but someone outside of it who refers to the characters as ‘‘he,’’ ‘‘she,’’ and ‘‘they.’’ This outside narrator, however, is not omniscient (or all-knowing), but is limited in knowledge to the perceptions of one or more of the characters in the story. The narrator of ‘‘Pomegranate Seed,’’ and therefore its reader, sees...

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