Narrator and point of view

The short story “The Arcade” by Alan Gillespie is told from the point of view of a third-person narrator. 

The narrator seems to adopt mainly Bill’s perspective throughout the story, as we get no insight into Gaynor’s thoughts or feelings except through what Bill observes: “She looked older but better than in the photographs he’d seen online” (ll. 5-6). Therefore, we can say that the narrator is limited.

However, readers also get little to no insight into Bill’s thoughts and feelings, and they are left to interpret what the characters think and feel mostly through what they say and...