Narrator and point of view
The short story “Vanity” by Charles Baxter is a third person narration. The narrator adopts the point of view of Harry Albert, one of the main characters, from the very beginning:
“He had stuffed his suitcase into the empty overhead bin, having purchased early-boarding rights from the airline, and had settled into his nonreclining seat, 32-B, when he had to stand up again to let the passenger in 32-A get past him.” (p. 1, ll. 1-3)
In the above fragment, the pronoun “he” suggests that Harry’s point...