What is the point of view in "To Hell with Dying"?

The point of view in "To Hell With Dying" written by Alice
Walker, is first person.

The story is told about Mr. Sweet
and the revivals that bring him back from the brink of death, several times. The person
telling the story is never named. She describes herself and how Mr. Sweet treats her,
but she never gives anyone but Mr. Sweet a name in the
story.

We know, of course, that the story is told in the
first person because the narrator uses the first person pronoun "I." Telling the story
in the first person is extremely effective in this story because it gives the tale a
more personal touch. This is particularly important because the subject of the poem (Mr.
Sweet) is especially important to not only the family, but the narrator as
well.

Mr. Sweet always runs his finger along her hair line,
she tells us. He makes her feel "outrageously devastating at the blazing age of eight
and a half." And the final line sums Mr. Sweet's impact on her life in a beautiful and
personal way, all the more so because of the use of the first person point of
view:

The man
on the high old-fashioned bed with the quilt coverlet and the flowing white beard had
been my first love.