Narrator and point of view

The short story “The Werewolf” by Angela Carter has a third-person narrator. The narrator’s point of view is primarily limited to what the little girl experiences and presents the events through her eyes:

When she heard that freezing howl of a wolf, she dropped her gifts, seized her knife and turned on the beast (…) It went for her throat, as wolves do, but she made a great swipe at it with her father's knife and slashed off its right forepaw. (ll. 35-40)

Nevertheless, this stops at the end, when the girl’s reactions upon seeing the fate of her grandmother are not described. This could suggest that the little girl does not take part in her grandmother's death, although there are no hints that she tries to stop it, either.

Although the narrator’s point of view is mostly limited to what the little girl experiences, the narrator is still knowledgeable when it comes to the beliefs of the community:

To these upland woodsmen, t...