Narrator and point of view

The short story “Blackberries” by Ellen Hunnicutt is narrated in the third person by an anonymous narrator who functions as an observer of the couple.

The third-person narrator seems to have knowledge regarding the feelings of the characters. For example, the narrator knows that the husband wants to make the blackberries last: “He rummaged through the kitchen box and found a spoon, then began to eat his berries slowly and carefully, making them last.”

He also knows that the woman still has endearing feelings for her husband: “The sun passed its zenith and she saw a stripe of shadow appear on the grass beside her husband, a silhouette slim as a boy, tender as memory.”

As you could see from the examples above, both the husband’s and the wife’s p...