Both classical and post-classical narratologies consider the issue of unreliability as pivotal to narrative research, and this principle applies equally in general narratology. Nevertheless, there remains a significant question that has yet to be clearly articulated: how can we assess the reliability of the narrator in a “third-person narrative” where the narrator is neither present nor directly involved? Alongside this arises the related question of whether characters themselves can exhibit unreliability. These two inquiries are, in fact, interrelated, as they both pertain to what I refer to as the phenomenon of “filling the narrative frame with personality.”