The chapter opens by comparing differences between reacting emotionally to works of art and to everyday oral narrating. The central thesis on the relation between narrative text and recipients’ emotions is that the more a narrative represents diverse perspectives, the more it elicits appropriate and differentiated recipient emotions. This is illustrated with narratives of three degrees of perspective representation in narratives, termed elaborated perspective representation, dramatic narration, and impersonal narration. The thesis is critically compared to Peter Goldie’s thesis that understanding emotions requires taking external perspectives. Finally other influences on recipient emotions like event severity, moral rightness of narrated actions and likeability of protagonist are added to the model. The chapter closes with a review of empirical studies of the influence of narrative perspectives on listener emotions.