What is the role of a narrator?
A narrator is, within any story (literary work, movie, play, verbal account, etc.), the person who conveys the story to the audience. When the narrator is also a character within the story, he or she is sometimes known as the viewpoint character. The narrator (or the archaic female equivalent, narratress) is one of three entities responsible for story-telling of any kind. The others are the author and the audience; the latter called the “reader” when referring specifically to literature. The author and the audience both inhabit the real world. It is the author’s function to create the universe, people, and events within the story. It is the audience’s function to understand and interpret the story. The narrator exists within the world of the story (and only there—although in non-fiction the narrator and the author can share the same persona, since the real world and the world of the story may be the same) and present it in a way the audience can comprehend. A narrator may tell the stor
