the characters in the narrative (Sternberg 1987: 130). This results in three “basic relationships that constitute point of view: between the narrator and characters, narrator and reader, reader and characters” (ibid.).3 The first relationship always remains static, with the narrator always omniscient regarding the characters. The latter two can exhibit variation: the reader may know the same or less than the narrator, while the reader may know the same or more than the characters (ibid.). In other