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I have the feeling this is already been asked, but I can't seem to find it. Close the question if it comes out as duplicate. There's an issue with novels with a first-person narrator, or a third p...
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2019-12-13T11:56:50Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T11:27:03Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
I have the feeling this is already been asked, but I can't seem to find it. Close the question if it comes out as duplicate. There's an issue with novels with a first-person narrator, or a third person limited narrator that doesn't switch point of view. Namely, the reader is stuck for all the novel with the same character. **Does the reader need to like the character?** Of course, it seems a nice thing to have, but is it **necessary**? Even if the narrator follows just one character, there is usually more that's happening in a novel. The plot. The other characters and their struggles. The worldbuilding. ## Are those elements enough to make a story interesting\* despite the unlikeablity of the PoV character? \*NB: Interesting, here, means that the readere will keep reading it to the end.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-03-21T09:32:08Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 12