Concept:The narrator's position relative to the story is identified by the pronouns and the way the character is named.
Explanation:The passage repeatedly calls the character "James" and uses third-person pronouns such as "his" and "he".
For example, the line "Jame's heart beat madly as he and Alice approached" shows the narrator speaking from outside the events.
A first-person narrator would use "I" or "we", which never appears in the passage.
Interior monologue and stream of consciousness both require a direct, disordered flow of a character's inner thoughts.
Although the narrator describes James's feelings, such as his heart beating madly, the account stays as an external observation rather than entering James's mind directly.
Therefore, the writing style is that of an omniscient or observer narrator telling the story in the third person.
Answer:C. Third person