Narration whose narrator did not participate in the events of the story world and who tells or shows the story from a vantage point outside that world.

An impersonal narrator is the essence of neutrality. He is impartial, unbiased, and because of this, reliable.

He is a trustworthy narrator because he does not share his own thoughts or opinions about the storyworld’s characters and events. In fact, he carefully chooses the words he uses so as to not influence the reader’s opinion.