What is the play?
and what are the options?
When Bostein clearly stated that ' the rules of high school turn out not to be the rules of life ' he apparently meant that the social-scale in a stereotypical high school is considered fake and has no purpose whatsoever in the outside world. Meaning that appearance and athletic status will not apply or be necessary to any sort of work in the 'real world'.
3. The third person point of view (the 'he' vs. 'I' in this passage) is voiced by an observer with limited omniscience.
In this case limited omniscience is shown by the fact that the narrator has feelings about what is occurring. An objective character would remain neutral describing events.