The omniscient point of view often describes without comment the action of the story, as Mrs. Mooney would see it, and leaves all judgments to the reader: “she was an outraged mother. She had allowed him to live beneath her roof, assuming that he was a man of honour, and he had simply abused her hospitality.” However, at other times, Joyce’s anger and indignation show, as in his description of Polly as “a little perverse madonna” and of Mrs. Mooney: “She dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat.”
narrated in the third person by and unnamed narrator and what is interesting about the story is that the reader is given the point of view of two of the main characters in the story, Mrs Mooney and Bob Doran.