The omniscient narration in "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane is significant because (A.) the omniscient narrator's overview of all the characters provides a foreshadowing of the ending.
"The Open Boat" is a short story that was written and published by Stephen Crane in 1897. It focuses on the author's own experience after surviving a shipwreck. <u>The story is told by a third-person narrator, that is, an omniscient narrator that does not participate in the story</u>. The narrator only witnesses what happens to the characters and tells the reader their thoughts and feelings. Moreover,<u> he knows more things than the characters, which allows him to anticipate what will happen at the end of the story</u>.
