Narrator and point of view

The short story “Day Trippers” by Raman Mundair is a third-person narration. The storyteller is outside the events he narrates.

To convey the story, the narrator uses the combined point of view of the two main characters, Parminder and Gurpreet. The two perspectives alternate throughout the story: “…she admitted to herself that she was waiting for him and then, as if on cue, he came through the door, immediately recognised her, and smiled.” (ll. 72-74); “When he saw her in the restaurant he recognised straight away that she had been waiting for him all along.” (ll. 76-77)

The narrator has as much knowledge of the events as the two characters have. The storyteller knows their background and their thoughts but has limited knowledge with regards...