actions, we can infer that the aunt is quite a stereotypical, flat character. She is stereotypical because she represents the typical society woman (perhaps a spinster?) with no children of her own who, upon being charged with the responsibility of her nieces and nephew, seems to lose control of them, and of her own discipline skills. Since she does not change throughout the story, she remains a flat character.

The bachelor is also flat because he does not experience any significant change as a result of the plot. If anything he does move the plot toward the end when he tells the story of Bertha to the children, and causes them to like the story. From the indirect characterization of the bachelor, we can infer that he is a bachelor precisely because of his dislike of family bundles, such as that of the aunt and the children. He is also creative and willing to do anything to save himself from being annoyed, even if it takes to come up with a story to calm down the rowdy children. Moreover, the bachelor also seems to have an upper-hand when it comes to people skills, for not only did he calm the children, but he also bragged about his superior skills to the aunt.

It is also acceptable to include that the bachelor is also stereotypical of his time and historical context because the character of the "eternal bachelor", that is, the uncommitted, thirty-something year old man who wishes to live his life away from the hassles of family life, is a character-type that repeats itself all throughout Victorian and post-Victorian literature.

The children, although moved by the story, are also flat. No transformation comes their way with the exception of their liking the story which, itself, does not constitute a character's transformation; they will continue to misbehave more than likely once the excitement of the story wears off. Hence, through indirect characterization we also know that they are mischievous children, prone to misbehave, and cannot be controlled by their aunt.

Therefore, through indirect characterization Saki presents to us characters who are rather flat and stereotypical of their historical time in context. The fact that they are flat characters (or static) does not entail that they are bad, incomplete, or not good enough; it simply means that the plot does not alter their behaviors, views on life, or their thoughts.

"The Storyteller" by H.H. Munro (Saki) is a nested story, or a story within a story. The external story is "The Storyteller" itself, as it is told by Saki, where he narrates the events that are taking place with the aunt, the children, and the bachelor in the railway carriage. The internal story is the bachelor's tale.

This being said, Saki is the external narrator that, from a third person omniscient point of view, tells us the story of "a bachelor" who is aggravated by three misbehaved children, and by their aunt, who cannot control them with her boring stories. As a result, the bachelor decides to tell the children a story of his own; the crudeness and ironical nature of the story ends up fascinating the children.

This second, nested, story, told by the protagonist, makes the bachelor an internal narrator. The bachelor tells the children the fictional story about Bertha, the "horribly good" little girl whose good deeds and shiny medals of honor end up getting her eaten by a wolf.

Hence, "The Storyteller" is told from a third person omniscient point of view where Saki is the all-knowing and non-participant narrator. This point of view is focalized through the perspective of the bachelor as an internal narrator.