Narrative techniques

The short story “The World Ending in Fire” by Jan Carson is told from the point of view of a first-person narrator. We do not know the narrator’s name or gender, but she is most likely a girl because she is close friends with Lyndsey and Louise. 

The now adult narrator is looking back and reflecting on events from her childhood, which means the short story is narrated in retrospect by the adult narrator. At times, the narrator makes comments that show she now has a more mature perspective on what happened then: 

I saw this as laziness. I was not yet old enough to understand loss; the way it could sap the sense right out of a full-grown woman. Laziness, I called it, and something like slovenliness, though I was too young to have acquired this particular word. (ll. 2-4)

The narrator seems to feel ash...