What is the narrator point of view in the short-story, The Other One?

"The Other One" is told from a third-person point of view with limited access to Heloise's thoughts and emotions. This perspective allows the author to dramatize the story's central theme about the way the past is communicated through many different filters.

At the end of the story, the perspective shifts dramatically. While still written in third person, the story presents Delia's thoughts rather than Heloise's, and ends with Delia's memory of Barbie in her bedroom the morning they left for France. By ending on this note, the story challenges readers' expectations in much the same way Delia's version of the story challenges the version Heloise inherited from her mother.