I take up three philosophical puzzles about our emotional and evaluative responses to fiction which are often discussed in relative isolation: the puzzles of fictional emotions, imaginative resistance, and disparate response. I argue that a consistent solution to all three puzzles requires appealing to a “perspective” on the fictional world. Perspectives are tools for organizing and coloring our thoughts, and guide our emotional and evaluative responses. “Trying on” a perspective requires actually, albeit temporarily, organizing one’s thoughts in a new way, and can produce real, and lingering, cognitive effects.