| Even so, the book almost works, because Victor is one of the most unreliable narrators I've met, and he may or may not be having us on. |
| Unlike the absconding narrators who skulk out of sight in most modern novels, James refuses to hide behind the mask of authorial anonymity. |
| In the first part the narrators reveal and analyze their own natures as well as their corrective visions of the world. |
| The narrators are often strangely limited third-person or unreliable first-person narrators, or there are multiple, shifting narrators. |
| The male narrators offer the woman's body as the place where they are momentarily free from the pressures of dissembling a myth of themselves. |
| Although both narrators are prone to purple passages, the texture of Singer's Gothic prose remains one of the novel's strengths. |
