# The "main character" who is not the Main Character **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [November 28, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/the-main-character-who-is-not-the-main-character/1348 "2017-11-28T20:57:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Lakis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/lakis/32/1816_2.png) [@Lakis](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/Lakis)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/the-main-character-who-is-not-the-main-character/1348/3 "2017-11-28T21:39:40Z")
The answer might depend on how you’re defining “main character”. As @mlucas said, Dramatica differentiates between “main character” and “protagonist” (they can be the same, but not necessarily [CORRECTION - they can be in the same “player”, but the roles are not the same]). The separation of the “main character” role (the “I” perspective) from that of the “protagonist” is one of the first insights that convinced me that Dramatica was onto something that I had not encountered in other story paradigms. So that’s one answer. But you might be asking something related but slightly different, namely, in a novel that has multiple points of view, how do you know which POV is the “main character”? We had a discussion about that [here](http://discuss.dramatica.com/t/dramatica-mc-point-of-view-versus-novel-storytelling-pov/1241), so maybe that will be useful. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/the-main-character-who-is-not-the-main-character/1348)._