Narrator and point of view

The short story “Flight” by Katharine Susannah Prichard is a third-person narration, told by a storyteller who is outside the plot. The fact that the narrator uses the point of view of multiple characters to convey the story implies that she/he has extended knowledge on the events.

The narrator uses John O’Shea’s perspective to convey the first part of the story: “Constable O’Shea sweated and swore as he thought of it, and the laughing-stock he had been to the white men on Movingunda, not one of whom would lend a hand to help him.” (p. 162, ll.  8-11)

In the second half of the story, the narrator introduces us to Nancy’s perspective and that of the three half-caste girls (which are sometimes in conflict): “They would do that themselves scrupu...