Observer-Narrator, Using the Third Person This point of view is limited to fiction. The tactic is much the same as the last one. The viewpoint character is a limited third-person narrator who witnesses the events. As unreliability is a complex and subtle way of showing the narrator’s character and the observer-narrator isn’t the protagonist, the reader is usually safe in assuming that this viewpoint character is fairly reliable, or at least transparent, both in first and third person.
