Narrator and point of view

Here, we help you focus on the narrator of the story “Could It Be Forever” by Nina Stibbe. You are also asked to use the term point of view.

The narrator of the short story is also the protagonist. Still, it is important to differentiate between the age of the protagonist and the age of the narrator. As the story is a recollection of past events, it is clear that the narrator is now an adult and only recalls what she experienced when she was younger. As the story is a recollection of past events, the narrator now has more insight on what happened when she was younger. 

The first-person narrator’s presence is felt from the first sentence of the story. The sentence reinforces the credibility of the narrator whose point of view is used and persu...