These steps TEST the protagonist. Traits are highly selected and consistent. Not likely to engage in inner conflict and will thus not change. Often function as a yardstick against which other characters are measured. His desires and values are likely to pull in different directions.
Places reader in a spatial relationship to story.
Not always reliable or fixed. Involves framing, proportioning, emphasizing, distorting of aspects of story. Often holds the reader so close to the narrator that the reader is unable to others objectively. Lacks intimate self-revelation of first person. The focal character acts as camera.