The author says that you need eyes to be able to 'see' the true self of a person. Therefore, she refers to the eye as 'window of the soul'. How is the narrator able to understand the feelings of a person?
The narrator, who is blind, understands the feelings of a person through touch.
She can only 'see' through her fingertips the outline of a face. By feeling a person's face, she can detect laughter, sorrow, and other obvious emotions.
She knows her friends from the feel of their faces, using touch as her way of understanding their emotional states.
Explanation
The chapter explains that Helen Keller, being blind, cannot see into the heart of a friend through the 'window of the soul' (the eye). Instead, she relies on touch: 'I can only "see" through my fingertips the outline of a face. I can detect laughter, sorrow and other obvious emotions. I know my friends from the feel of their faces.'
Solution Steps
The narrator is blind and cannot see through the 'window of the soul' (the eye)
She understands feelings through touch instead of sight
She 'sees' through her fingertips by feeling the outline of a face
She can detect laughter, sorrow, and other obvious emotions through touch
She recognizes her friends from the feel of their faces