The first-person point of view tells the readers only what the doctor is thinking and not how other characters react. When the doctor first sees the child, he states, “The child was fairly eating me up with her cold steady eyes, and no expression to her face whatever.” The child does not seem nice, and the readers do not know who or what could be causing the child this feeling. The mother was nervous about her daughter, so she “moved back and forth behind us raising and lowering her hands in an agony of apprehension.” The readers cannot tell the mother’s mind, so they cannot feel how this doctor is making her think. The readers are limited to the events by the doctor’s perspective, so they cannot understand how events in the other characters’
