# The Narrator — The Souls of Black Folk character guide

> The Narrator in The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Unknown, I, mine, myself

**First appearance:** 0001-the-forethought

## Who they are

The unnamed first-person narrator and authorial voice guiding the reader through the book's essays.

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