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A Well Lighted Place Point Of View
While reading “A Well Lighted Place” by Earnest Hemingway it begins as a third person limited point of view. The interactions between the characters are just a documented interaction between an old man, and old waiter, and a young waiter. Later in the story it turns into Third person omniscient, and details are given on why the characters act out in the way that they do. If the reader was to have this information delivered to them from a different point of view it would drastically alter and bias the reader’s opinion. Interactions would not be as detailed and set out for the reader, and they would become partial to a particular character if told from their own first person point of view. Some examples of a different point of views are as follows:

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