Narrative text, in its almost infinite forms, is present at all times, in all places, in all societies. Narration begins with the very history of humanity. Genette (1980) explains that the function of narrative is not to give an order, express a wish, state a condition, etc. On the contrary, its purpose is merely to tell a story and thus to ‘report’ facts (either fictive or real). In addition, the narrative can provide reader with more or with a small number of details – in a more or less direct way, and can therefore seemingly keep at a greater or lesser distance from what it tells. The narrative assumes or appears to assume what is usually called the participant’s ‘vision’ or ‘point of view’. It is only narrative that tells the readers of the events that it describes and of the activity that presumably brought it into existence. The activity of writing leaves in it traces that can be obtained and understood. These traces would then be a presence of the first-person pronoun, which illustrates the unity of character and narrator, or a verb in the past tense, which points to a described action happening before the narrating action. Every narrative is supposed to have a narrator. According to Bal (1999), a narrator is the most central concept in the analysis of narrative texts, and it is something I will be dealing with in this paper in great detail. All three novels by Charlotte Brontë discussed in this paper are written entirely from the first-person point of view. The Professor was written from the male point of view by the female writer (and this is the most important difference between this and the other two novels discussed in this paper, namely Jane Eyre and Villette), and it was almost the only such example among Victorian novels.