Third person is easily the most flexible point of view and is used in at least three different ways. Third person is the point of view most used by writers. Objective third person is the fly on the wall, showing the reader only what an observer in the room could see. All insight and emotion have to be transmitted to the reader through place, object, action, and dialogue.
Here is third person fly on the wall:
After supper her father says, “Want to go down and see if the lake's still there?” She and her father leave her mother sewing under the dining-room light, her head bent over the needle, the light raining down and creating a dark shadow that the mother stares into. The mother is making clothes, diminutive dresses, blouses with many buttons, clothes nicer than those the girl is wearing, winter clothes. Scattered to the side are the remnants where the mother has gotten the cloth, an old suit and an old plaid wool dress of hers. She's trying to match the plaid together in a perfect seam down the back of the girl's dress. Close by is a step stool, where she makes the daughter stand for fittings at each major step. The room is hot and the air thick with moisture, and the clothes are wool, and the daughter has rolled her eyes each time as the mother has chalked or pinned the cloth. Father and daughter step out of the house, leaving a little brother in the little screened porch at the end of the front veranda. He kneels on his bed and presses his face against the screen and calls, “Bring me an ice-cream cone!” The daughter calls back, “You will be asleep,” and she doesn't turn her head.
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