Narrator and point of view

The narrator of the short story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the characters, an unnamed mesmerist (hypnotist) whose name starts with the initial “P”. Being a first-person narration, the storyteller has limited knowledge and confines to his point of view on the events. Consequently, we only have access to the information the narrator shares with us.

Even if the narrator claims rendering the facts of his story in an objective way, his personal point of view be...