Alice Walkers “The Welcome Table” Is told from a third person omniscient point of view.
The old (woman) stood with eyes uplifted in her Sunday–go–to–meeting clothes: high shoes polished about the tops and toes, a long rusty dress adorned with an old corsage, long withered, and the remnants of an elegant silk scarf as head rag stained with grease from the many oily pigtails underneath. Perhaps (she) had known suffering. There was a dazed and sleepy look in (her) aged blue–brown eyes. But for (those) who searched hastily for "reasons" in that old tight face, shut now like an ancient door, there was nothing to be read. And so (they) gazed nakedly upon their own fear transferred; a fear of the black and the old, a terror of the unknown as well as of the deeply known. Some of (those) who saw (her) there on the church steps spoke words about (her) that were hardly fit to be heard, (others) held their pious peace; and (some) felt vague stirrings of pity, small and persistent and hazy, as if (she) were an old collie turned out to die.

The symbols that stood out were the apparel that the old woman was wearing. The description of the old woman and what she was wearing made this story come to life. The narration of this story was vivid and reveals the feelings of the people involved.
First Person refers to self as I did the job, I made the call or I read the newspaper.
Second person though rarely used refers to the “you” point of view such as “if you are going to do the job you need to check out the qualifications.”
Third person refers to another as he, she, his, they and are usually personal pronouns (he, his, she, and her) or verbs (is) that refers .to the person or thing in a literary form.
Third person limited refers to a single character in literary writings.
Third person omniscient refers to all the characters in literary writings.
Reference:
Journey into Literature (Clugston, R. Wayne) Ashford University, Discovery Series
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