PLEASE HELP ASAP! What does the following quote from the story Rip Van Winkle show us about the point of view? 'In that same village, and in one of these very houses... there lived, many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant...'

A) The narrator is Rip Van Winkle.

B) The story is being told by a descendant of Rip Van Winkle.

C)The narrator knows things that happened before the book started.

D)The narrator is one of Rip Van Winkle's ancestors.