Throughout the story “A White Heron”, the author expresses through description that animals can be considered both a person and commodity. In “A White Heron”, Sylvia describes the White Heron’s actions, “She remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together…” (Jewett, 20). The narrator used this technique in this quote to imply that the white heron is a person due to the actions described. As said in the quote, the white heron’s actions with Sylvia briefly describe what a person would do in the morning if they lived by the…