Explain how the omniscient point of view allows you to see problems that may affect an entire community. What do you think is the writer's attitude towards the townspeople? Towards the Kelveys? Support your answer with textual evidence.
The townspeople felt sorry for the Kelveys, but they also looked down on them.
They were the daughters of a spry, hardworking little washerwoman, who went about from house to house by the day. This was awful enough. But where was Mr. Kelvey? Nobody knew for certain. But everybody said he was in prison. So they were the daughters of a washerwoman and a jailbird. Very nice company for other people’s children! And they looked it. Why Mrs. Kelvey made them so conspicuous was hard to understand. The truth was they were dressed in “bits” given to her by the people for whom she worked. Lil,
for instance, who was a stout, plain child, with big freckles, came to school in a dress made from a green art-serge tablecloth of the Burnells’, with red plush sleeves from the Logans’ curtains.
The Doll's House
