Question

Which narrative point of view is used in this excerpt from “Wakefield” by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Answer 1

The answer is B: first person, reteller.

 The story is all about a man who absent himself for a long time from his wife. But the point of view is from the narrator, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who had recollected a story from old publications, told as true. The fact that he is telling a story altready told before, he is a reteller, narrating his point of view of the story.