Narrator and point of view

The events described in the short story “The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter are told by a third-person narrator. 

The narrator is outside the story and functions as an observer, but several clues suggest that the narrator is actually a member of the community: “But the wolves have ways of arriving at your own hearthside. We try and try but sometimes we cannot keep them out” (p. 1, ll. 30-31). Here, the plural “we” hints that the narrator is part of the villagers’ community. Despite this, the narrator functions as an omniscient narrator and presents the thoughts of multiple characters in the story and foreshadows important moments.

In the second part of the story, the narrator focuses on the girl’s perspective: “She did not believe it; she knew she should never leave the path on the way through the wood or else she would be ...