Narrator and point of view

The short story “Sredni Vashtar” by Saki is conveyed in the third-person, by a narrator who is outside the events and mostly takes on the perspective of the boy, Conradin.

Although the narrator is outside the events, he has knowledge into what the characters feel like:

Mrs. De Ropp would never, in her honestest moments, have confessed to herself that she disliked Conradin, though she might have been dimly aware that thwarting him 'for his good' was a duty which she did not find particularly irksome.

Conradin hated her with a desperate sincerity which he was perfectly able to mask. Such few pleasures as he could contrive for himself gained an added relish from the likelihood that they would be displeasing to his guardian…

However, in most of the narrative, the narrator confines the story to the boy’s limited perspective on the events. We only ...