Read the following excerpt from Sarah Orne Jewett's short story "A White Heron". Why is the
point-of-view third person omniscient?
"The good woman suspected that Sylvia loitered occasionally on her own account; there
never was such a child for straying about out-of-doors since the world was made!
Everybody said that it was a good change for a little maid who had tried to grow for eight
years in a crowded manufacturing town, but, as for Sylvia herself, it seemed as if she
never had been alive at all before she came to live at the farm. She thought often with
wistful compassion of a wretched geranium that belonged to a town neighbor."
A WHITE HERON
Sanah Orne Jewett