That is, if an editor has good sensibility and takes a liking to a story, craft means nothing. If there is something wrong with a story, however, then its craft should be examined in order to fix the problem. Each magazine publishing fiction has its own editing styles, and each editor within that magazine also has his own editing style. The first story aspect that all editors look at is the ability of the writer to write. If he doesn't, then the editor can't expect the story to be very good.
Some editors also look at the narrator.
They want to know who the narrator is, what's at stake in the story, and why the reader should care about the narrator. Some magazines try to read through each and every submission they receive, even the story does not look very hopeful. Their argument for this is that the most important parts of every story are the opening and the ending. An editor can not get a good feel for a story unless he reads the entire thing. Others argue and say that if a story is good literature, then nothing else should matter.