Question

which point of view does the narrator use in the passage?
\beannacht libh,\ cried miss ivors with a laugh as she ran down the staircase.
mary jane gazed after her, a moody puzzled expression on her face, while mrs. conroy leaned over the banisters to listen for the hall - door. gabriel asked himself was he the cause of her abrupt departure. but she did not seem to be in ill humor: she had gone away laughing. he stared blankly down the staircase.
from james joyce, the dead
first person
second person
third person

Explanation:

The passage uses pronouns like "she", "her", "he" to refer to characters (Miss Ivors, Mary Jane, Gabriel) and does not use first-person pronouns (I, we) or second-person pronouns (you). This matches the characteristics of third-person point of view, where the narrator observes and reports on the characters from an outside perspective.

Answer:

third person