Narrator and point of view

The events described in the short story “Green Velvet” by Krzysztof Pelc are told by a first-person narrator, who is also one of the story’s main characters. The events are told in retrospect by an older narrator who looks back on his childhood, as illustrated by the following example: “Many years later, over noisy family dinners where my own kids stumbled over their second-generation Farsi with their grandfather, we would refer to this overturned proof as the Sofa Impossibility Theorem” (p. 2, ll. 65-67). 

At times, the older narrator inserts some comments which are, most likely, the result of experience. For example, the comments about the judgment of parents do not seem to come from the younger narrator, but from the older one, who has had time to analyze...