Narrator and point of view

The short story “Dead Man’s Shoes” by David Evans is a first-person narration in which the narrator is a secondary character and an observer of the action. He is a teacher and one of the suitors of the protagonist, Anne: “Last and least me, a teacher, divorced by a wife who had found me, my profession and Pampoenfontein too dull for her...” (ll. 67-68)

Throughout the narrative he mostly uses the first-person plural to suggest that he identifies with the group of suitors: “Instead, we talked of her best interests - her financial welfare, her happiness and her safety. We did this, her well-wishers and suitors...” (ll. 43-44)

Nevertheless, the story is conveyed only from his point of view, showing that he has limited knowledge of the events. He ...