# The Narrator — The War of the Worlds character guide

> The Narrator in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.

**Role:** major

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

**First appearance:** 0004-i-the-eve-of-the-war

## Who they are

An unnamed philosophical writer who witnesses the Martian invasion firsthand.

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