Read the excerpt below from the novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck and answer the question that follows. The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay. I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer—and what trees and seasons smelled like—how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich. Source: Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. New York: Penguin Group, 1952. Google Books. Web. 16 May 2011. What is the narrator's point of view?
The narrator refers to themself as “I” and describes personal memories of childhood, nature, and people. That makes the passage first-person point of view. The third-person choices would use “he,” “she,” or “they” to tell the story.
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