Read this excerpt from What Malste Knew by Henry James and answer the question that follows.
Thus from the
first Malsle not
only felt It, but knew she felt It. A part of It was
the consequence of her father's telling her he felt It too,
and telling Moddle, In her presence, that she must make a point of driving that
point of driving that home. She was famillar, at the age of six, with the fact
that everything had been changed on her account, everything ordered to enable him to give himself up to her. She was
always the words in which Moddle impressed upon her that he did so give himself:
to remember
that he has been dreadfully put about." If the skin
"Your papa wishes you never to forget, you know,
on Moddle's face had to Maisie the air of being unduly, almost painfully, stretched, it
never presented that appearance so much as when she uttered, as she often had occasion to utter, such words. The
they didn't make it hurt more than usual; but If was only after
child wondered if
some time that she was able to attach to the picture of her father's
sufferings, and more particularly to her nurse's manner about them, the meaning for which these things had walted.
Identify the type of narration used in the excerpt. Which words in the excerpt indicate the type of narration? What is the effect of this point
of view on the reader's Interpretation of the Information presented?