from "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news
of her husband's death. It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half
concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when
intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed. He had only taken the
time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram and had hastened to forestall any less careful less tender friend in
bearing the sad message.
If this story were told from the point of view of Mrs. Mallard, what would be known?
eso)
A)
We would know Josephine's feelings about her sister
B)
We would know Mrs. Mallard's thoughts about her husband's death,
We would know how Richards feels about Mrs. Mallard's heart disease.
D)
We would know Mr. Mallard's actions immediately prior to the accident.

The given story is written from the third-person point of view. We can recognize this type of narrative by the use of pronouns he, she, it, and they. It feels as if the narrator is a person observing what is going on and telling us about it.

The first-person point of view is the one told from the first person. We can recognize this by the use of pronouns I and we. The narrator is one of the characters from the story, usually the main character.

If Mrs. Mallard was the narrator, we would know her thoughts about her husband's death. We would be looking at the events that take place around her through her eyes. We would know what she is thinking about and how exactly she is feeling. This is the effect of the first-person narrative.