sentences:  He understands character not to denote a fictional person, but the quality of the person acting in the story and reacting to its situations (1450a5).He defines character as "that which reveals decision, of whatever sort" (1450b8).It is possible, therefore, to have stories that do not contain "characters" in Aristotle's sense of the word, since character necessarily involves making the ethical dispositions of those performing the action clear.