Your original question stated that the point of view used
in this great short story was limited third person. However, actually, the point of view
utilised is the omniscient narrator. The limited third-person narration only tells the
story from the perspective of one person who the narrator focuses on to narrate the tale
- we gain access to their thinking and motivation. However, it is clear that in "The
Destructors" Greene adopts the omniscient narrator, which means that he acts as a
God-like, all-knowing narrator, who can focus on any character and reveal what is going
on through their eyes. For example, at times Greene zooms in on "Old
Misery":
He
didn't want to soil his house, which stood jagged and dark between the bomb sites, saved
so narrowly, he believed, from
destruction.
And at others we
get access into the mind of other characters, such as
Blackie:
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...Blackie was dimly aware of the fickleness of
favour. He thought of going home, of never returning, of letting them all discover the
hollowness of T.'s
leadership...
Clearly
therefore, any narrative that is written in the third person that presents us with the
thoughts and perspective of more than one character can be described as adopting the
omniscient point of view.
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