Omniscient Point of View

In “The Storyteller,” what do we learn about each character through the omniscient point of view? How does this choice of narrator affect the plot? How would the story be different if told by either the aunt or the bachelor from the first person point of view? What would be lost? Write a paragraph or more to explain your answer, and support your ideas with details from the story.

• We are able to understand what every character is thinking and feeling about certain things or other characters when the story is told in an omniscient point of view. This choice of narrator, an omniscient point of view, affects the plot because one, we have an unbiased view about the overall story, and two, we know that the things told and that are occurring are true, so we do not have to make inferences about everything. This story would be different if told by the either the aunt or the bachelor. When the bachelor tells the story, he will be biased into the idea that the aunt is boring and makes fun of the aunt more because of her "righteousness", and when the aunt tells the story, she will be biased into the idea that the bachelor is arrogant, and that he is being an unsuccessful adult for telling the children improper stories. If the story was told either by the aunt or the bachelor, the truth or moral the story is trying to convey by comparing the two versions of the story would be lost. Also, we do not know what the children thinks about the stories, which is a factor that helps us identify the truth or moral.