Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0929 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Frame Narrator
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The idea
This voice exists to hand the story to someone else. Marlow will take it over and tell the bulk of the book, with the unnamed listener reporting him. That arrangement is a frame narrative, and the glossary has no headword for the term.
In practice
One narrator handing over to another.
Where people slip
The glossary omits frame narrative.
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