Point of View and Its impact
The point of view in A Day's Wait by Ernest Hemingway is a key part of the story. In this story, the narrator is the father, who is taking care of his sick child. The narrator understands that his son will be fine since its only the flu and his temperature isn't high enough for it to damage. But his son is naive. If the son had been the narrator, you would have known from the beginning why Schatz had been acting out of the ordinary. His thoughts would have been shown from the first instance he had heard "hundred and two," (Hemingway, 436). But instead, with the father as the narrator, you are made to think of why this kid is acting strange. Why is he staring at the foot of the bed? Why isn't he paying attention to the story? What's going on in his head? In the end, we figure out, its just the kid being naive