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What is is the point of view in the story "The Scarlet Ibis" and the writing style used by the author?

This story uses the first person point of view. Brother, a character in the story, is the narrator. Using first person narration, Brother is able to tell the story from his own perspective and personal experience. So, the reader gets the events from Brother's own memory. Although this is not a series of diary entries, Brother does recall these events in a similar way. This story is Brother's confession about how he treated and mistreated his younger brother, Doodle. 


So, it is similar to a story like Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado." The clear difference is that Poe's narrator (Montresor) confesses with hardly any remorse whereas Brother's confession in "The Scarlet Ibis" is filled with remorse and regret. 


Brother recounts the events in hindsight. This is why he uses the past tense from the very beginning. In retelling the story, Brother is older and wiser and therefore better able to reflect upon his mistakes with Doodle. When Brother shows his family how he's taught Doodle to walk, Brother cries and the reader understands Brother's shame in this story/confession: 



They did not know that I did it for myself, that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices, and that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother. 



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