| The narrators are often strangely limited third-person or unreliable first-person narrators, or there are multiple, shifting narrators. |
| In the movies, with their narrators and time-shifts, we accept much more agile storytelling. |
| Although both narrators are prone to purple passages, the texture of Singer's Gothic prose remains one of the novel's strengths. |
| In the first part the narrators reveal and analyze their own natures as well as their corrective visions of the world. |
| The problem is that some Heldentenors are fine at projecting roles such as Tristan, but aren't natural narrators. |
| The novel has two wildly different narrators, and two elaborately intertwined stories. |
