Rieux, as the narrator, describes what exile meant to them all:

In the semi-autobiographic Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn the narrator describes a period of time selling the Encyclopædia Britannica door by door in the town.

In the 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the narrator and protagonist Lily describes a punishment her abusive father routinely inflicted on her: kneeling on grits.

The poem expands on the gothic hints of the first stanza as the narrator explores the dark chasm in the midst of Xanadu's gardens, and describes the surrounding area as both " savage " and " holy ".

When the narrator describes the " ancestral voices prophesying war ", the idea is part of the world of understanding, or the real world.

The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured.

* In Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, the narrator describes the Oxford of his youth as being " submerged now and obliterated, irrecoverable as Lyonnesse, so quickly have the waters come flooding in ..."

The narrator describes the game thusly:

* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.

From Chapter III to Chapter X, where the narrator obtains a job at " Hotel X ," he describes his descent into poverty, often in tragi-comic terms.

The narrator describes it as one of the most shameful incidents ever in British military history.

Norwegian sailor Gustaf Johansen, the narrator of one of the tales in the short story, describes the accidental discovery of the city: " a coast-line of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth's supreme terror — the nightmare corpse-city of R ' lyeh ... loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours ".

Hammer, the first person narrator of the story, describes her as " radiating sex in every manner and gesture " (" Mary only had sex.

Delirium makes bubbles, finds “ The Dancing Woman ”, and the narrator extensively describes Ruby.

At the opening of the book, the narrator, an everyman named John ( a. k. a. Jonah ), describes a time when he was planning to write a book about what important Americans did on the day Hiroshima was bombed.

* ' The narrator ' is a writer named John, also known as Jonah, who describes the events in the book with humorous and sarcastic detail.

The narrator then describes the cauldron of the Chief of Annwn ; it is finished with pearl and will not boil a coward's food.

Dante ( 1265 – 1321 ), in his Paradiso, describes the ascent of his narrator through the spheres of the Moon, the planets from Mercury to Saturn, and thence to the sphere of the fixed stars and the heavens of the angels.

In the opening chapter, the narrator describes Kear's time at the college, saying " he was president of the Union and but for an unfortunate attack of measles might very well have got his rowing blue ".

In Italo Calvino's novella, The Cloven Viscount, the narrator describes assisting Dr. Trelawney, a doctor-cum-amateur-scientist, in his hunt for will-o '- the-wisps in cemeteries.

The hero's experience is recorded in " notebooks ", which are compiled to form the actual narrative, and which serve to record his unusual, mostly sexual, experiences in British India — the narrator describes himself as dominated by " a devilish indifference " towards " all things having to do with art or metaphysics ", focusing instead on eroticism.

* In Stephenie Meyer's novel The Host the narrator describes an alien race she has encountered who are similar to dolphins and have three distinct sexes, all of which are required for reproduction and have separate societal roles.

The first chapter, The Horror in Clay, concerns a small bas-relief sculpture found among the papers, which the narrator describes: " My somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature .... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings.

The most famous exposition of the theory is in Oscar Wilde's short story " The Portrait of Mr. W. H .," in which Wilde, or rather the story's narrator, describes the puns on " will " and " hues " in the sonnets, ( notably Sonnet 20 among others ), and argues that they were written to a seductive young actor named Willie Hughes who played female roles in Shakespeare's plays.

The narrator in the story must do as her husband, who is also her doctor, demands, although the treatment he prescribes contrasts directly with what she truly needs — mental stimulation and the freedom to escape the monotony of the room to which she is confined.

The narrator contemplates the ability to fly and what it will mean if the one truly good person in the world is gone.

Most TV versions of this cartoon, particularly on the channels ABC, WB, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network, cut the moment in which the Martian runs through an abstract hell of people yelling and screaming and the narrator suggests that the Martian can commit suicide if he truly feels that no one loves him.

Lauretta is the narrator of this very old tale.

When HCE is first introduced in chapter I. 2, the narrator relates how " in the beginning " he was a " grand old gardener ", thus equating him with Adam in the Garden of Eden.

As " First Woman ", according to the script, she played the mother in " The Wolf at the Door ", a woman who insisted Macbeth was a murder mystery, the wife Mr. Preble wanted to get rid of, Miss Alma Winege ( who wanted to ship Thurber 36 copies of Grandma Was a Nudist ), a woman helping to update old poetry, Walter Mitty's wife, and the narrator of " The Little Girl and The Wolf ".

The narrator of The Unnamable answers: “ They depart, one by one, and the voices go on, it ’ s not theirs, they were never there, there was never anyone but you, talking to you about you …” The old woman in Rockaby appears to be the exact opposite of O but although she actively seeks to be seen by someone while O does everything to avoid perceivedness, the irony is that both characters are alone with only themselves for company.

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Man Of The Crowd ", a dishevelled old ' man ' occupies a Will-o '- the-Wisp type role in leading the narrator through the streets of London.

* Dit du Lyon (" Story of the Lion ") ( 1342 ) – The narrator comes to a magical island and a lion guides him to a beautiful lady ; an old knight comes to the narrator and reveals the meaning of what he sees and gives him advice for being a better lover.

It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man whom the narrator insists has a " vulture eye ".

It has been suggested that the old man is a father figure, or that the narrator works for the old man as a servant, and that perhaps his vulture eye represents some sort of veiled secret, or power.

The old man with whom he lives has a clouded, pale, blue " vulture-like " eye which so distresses the narrator that he plots to murder the old man, though the narrator states that he loves the old man, and hates only the eye.

For seven nights, the narrator opens the door of the old man's room, a process which takes him a full hour.

On the eighth night, the old man awakens and sits up in his own bed while the narrator performs his nightly ritual.

Hearing the old man's heart beating unusually and dangerously fast from terror, the narrator decides to strike, jumping out with a loud yell and smothering the old man with his own bed.

Confident that they will not find any evidence of the murder, the narrator brings chairs for them and they sit in the old man's room, on the very spot where the body is concealed, yet they suspect nothing, as the narrator has a pleasant and easy manner about him.

As the ringing grows louder, the narrator comes to the conclusion that it is the heartbeat of the old man coming from under the floorboards.