==== <span class="anchor" id="Third-person, subjective"></span> Subjective or objective ====
''Subjective'' point of view is when the narrator conveys the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of one or more characters.<ref name=Dynes>{{cite book|last1=Dynes|first1=Barbara|title=Masterclasses in Creative Writing|date=2014|publisher=Constable & Robinson|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-1-47211-003-9|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s0jBBAAAQBAJ&dq=third-person+subjective+objective&pg=PT37|access-date=28 July 2020|chapter=Using Third Person}}</ref> If this is just one character, it can be termed ''third-person limited'', in which the reader is limited to the thoughts of some particular character (often the [[protagonist]]) as in the first-person mode, except still giving personal descriptions using third-person pronouns. This is often the main character (for example, Gabriel in [[James Joyce]]'s "[[The Dead (Joyce short story)|The Dead]]", [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]'s ''[[Young Goodman Brown]]'', or Santiago in [[Ernest Hemingway|Hemingway]]'s ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]''). Certain third-person omniscient modes are also classifiable as using the third person, subjective mode when they switch between the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
In contrast to the broad, sweeping perspectives seen in many 19th-century novels, third-person subjective is sometimes called the "over the shoulder" perspective; the narrator only describes events perceived and information known by a character. At its narrowest and most subjective scope, the story reads as though the viewpoint character were narrating it; dramatically this is very similar to the first person, in that it allows in-depth revelation of the protagonist's personality, but does not permit the same level of unreliability.
