In the first lines the narrator is omniscient.

At line 6 there is a shift of the point of view from the narrator's to Eveline's mind. The shift of the point of view takes the reader inside Eveline's mind thus, giving the reader information about her past, her childhood. The verb "seems" shows that Eveline is not sure about her opinions. "Home!" can be considered as free direct speech: the reader seems to be inside Eveline's mind. This is the effect that the free direct speech creates. After that, the narrator adopts the free indirect speech. There is an omniscient narrator that adopts Eveline's point of view. The effect of this technique is that the narrator seems to have an eclipse. At lines 35, 43, 47 the narrator uses the direct speech: he reports some words that come into Eveline's mind. The narrator continues to use the free indirect speech except at line 78. "She was about to explore another life with Frank": from this sentence the reader understands that Eveline's feelings are filtered by the narrator.the first part ends again with the technique of free indirect speech but the narrator interrupts more frequently Eveline's thinks. For example the pronoun "she" combined with verbs like"continued to sit, knew stood, remembered...." appears many times in the last lines of the short story's first part.

In the second part the narrator speaks and there is a mixture of techniques: the narrator is always omniscient but he reports Eveline's thoughts and uses the direct speech for Henry's words.