In Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Austen’s usage of the third-person omniscient point of view creates …show more content…
Throughout the story, the narrator only focuses on Paul’s thoughts and experiences. Although there is a brief mention about his father, it only concerns Paul’s thoughts and interpretations about the situation, “His father was in New York; ‘stopping at some joint or other,’ he said. The memory of successive summers on the front stoop fell upon him(Paul) like a weight of black water. He had not a hundred dollars left...he knew money was everything” (Cathers 249). In this context, although the father could have had his own thoughts at the time, the readers could only interpret Paul’s mind. Even though readers could only narrowly delve into Paul’s Case, and even though readers had a wide range of characters to interpret in Pride and Prejudice, perspective is not the only factor that can affect the development of the plot or