Narrator and point of view

The short story “The Larder” by Morris Lurie is told from a third-person point of view by an omniscient narrator, who is able to share details of both the tourists' backgrounds and their thoughts and motivations with the readers. 

The narrator mostly seems to convey the tourists’ perspective throughout the story. This is suggested especially by the fact that the narrator calls the creatures in the shells “things”, which reflects the tourists’ lack of knowledge about them and lack of compassion towards them. Another example of this is: “Anyhow, they couldn’t possibly fit them all into their luggage.” (p. 94, l. 2)

The narration is also mixed with dialogue; the third-person narrator sometimes completes the dialogue with various details about the characters: “ ‘That’s awfull...

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