Narrator's Persona

Depending on the relationship of the narrator and the character, the narrator can make someone look very bad or very good. Sometimes if the narrator is not involved it could be neutral. A character's characteristic is projected to the reader by the narrator's word choice and what the narrator want us to know about the character. This means that the narrator has the sole power to introduce a character the way he wants and we can only know a character by the way the narrator shows us. If the narrator intended to let the reader think that the character is vicious or evil, the reader has no way of finding out otherwise. This is very important because the way the narrator portraits the character can deeply effect how the reader like the character and it will relate to the condone or condemn of character's actions. This is very significant to the plot and the story that we understand the character through the narrator the way he wants. It is almost impossible not to have a bias narrator even if the narrator is not conscious or intentionally being bias because every word choice, every scene the narrator decided to show the reader will be a deciding factor of a character. A narrator can't put all the scenes and every single details into a story because it would be too long and the narrator cannot use neutral adjectives throughout the whole story. In conclusion, many story depends a lot on how a writer want the reader to think of a character and the story would change by a lot if the narrator decided to show the other side of the character.