The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

Twice, the murderer surprisingly turns out to be the unreliable narrator of the story.

Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story:

*" Dear Esther " is a 2012 video game by thechineseroom that allows the player to traverse an uninhabitated Hebridean island ; as the player does so letters and diary excerpts are recalled audibly by the narrator to reveal the story and encourage progression towards certain areas.

For example, Alvin Sandberg claimed that the short story " The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids " offers " an exploration of impotency, a portrayal of a man retreating to an all-male childhood to avoid confrontation with sexual manhood " from which the narrator engages in " congenial " digressions in heterogeneity.

The narrator makes an extended reference to the story of a corrupt Spartan ’ s consultation of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi from Herodotus ( 6. 86 ).

In “ The Women Men Don ’ t See ,” Sheldon gives a feminist story a unique spin by making the narrator, Don Fenton, a male.

An omniscient narrator, almost always a third-person narrator, can reveal insights into characters and settings that would not be otherwise apparent from the events of the story and which no single character could be aware of.

In two stories (" The Musgrave Ritual " and " The Gloria Scott "), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story.

Since this person usually sets the ground and setting for the story, he or she is often referred to as the " storyteller " ( often contracted to " ST ") or " narrator ".

The players contribute to an on-going story with defined parameters but no narrator or directing force.

* Sam Elliott as The Stranger, the narrator, who sees the story unfold from a third-party perspective.

The story is presented as a first-person narrative using an unreliable narrator.

Near the beginning of the tale, the narrator says he would be " mad indeed " if he should expect a reader to believe the story, implying that he has already been accused of madness.

Although Pluto is a neutral character at the beginning of the story, he becomes antagonistic in the narrator ’ s eyes once the narrator becomes an alcoholic.

At the beginning of the story an unnamed narrator is brought to trial before various sinister judges.

The " reality " of the story is enhanced through Poe's focus on sensation: the dungeon is airless and unlit, the narrator is subject to thirst and starvation, he is swarmed by rats, the closing walls are red-hot metal and, of course, the razor-sharp pendulum threatens to slice into the narrator.

Elissa is the narrator of this tale which was either taken from a fabliau by Jean de Condé written between 1313 and 1337, or from a story about Saint Jerome in The Golden Legend, written about 1260.

However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728 ; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents.

In this story, the narrator is waiting under a tree to be picked up by a coach which will take him out of Newcastle, when he suddenly finds himself transported back over a thousand years.

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.

* 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.

A narrator describes " the truly old ", people, humanoids, humans and others, " human to all appearances ( and in a few cases, to all medical tests currently available )" who have walked and continue to walk the earth to this day.

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.