Narrator and point of view

The short story “On Pale Green Walls” by Clare Wigfall is a first person-account of a narrator named Violet. The events are told in retrospect, but the narrator uses her limited point of view from when she was a child. For instance, the narrator does not know the woman in blue is a statue of Virgin Mary; she assumes the statue is a real person:

After a while I looked up, and there she was, on the front of his newspaper, a huge black and white photograph of her. I guessed she must have been quite famous. But something was different. In her arms she held a baby. (ll. 46-49)

The narrator also does not know that her mother is visiting the priest because she is worried about her. She only finds out when they are in the priest’s office. Because the...