Narrator and point of view

The short story “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde is a third-person account, rendered by a storyteller who is outside the action and has extended knowledge on most of the characters.

The narrator can understand and knows what the Nightingale and other natural elements think and feel, unlike the Student, who is incapable of grasping the bird’s message:

The Student looked up from the grass, and listened, but he could not understand what the Nightingale was saying to him, for he only knew the things that are written down in books. But the Oak-tree understood, and felt sad, for he was very fond of the little nightingale who had built her nest in his branches.

The narrator also knows uses the Student's perspective at the end of the short story:

“It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to...