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Angela Carter's collection of short stories, entitled The Blood Chamber, provides a variety of examples of the use of the narrator and how the narrator can be developed as a storyteller, a character or both. This paper provides an overview of the current literature on this topic and references a variety of sources. No additional sources cited.
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a storyteller, a character or both. Two of her most popular short stories, "The Bloody Chamber" and "Puss in Boots," demonstrate the varied use of the narrator in Carters
stories and support the belief that variations in the role of the narrator can have a substantial impact on the story as a whole. Carter introduces her
story "The Bloody Chamber" with a definitive statement about the nature of the narrator and how this narrator will shape the story. It is evident that the narrator is
not only a central character, but the heroine of the story, and it will be the struggles of this narrator that will direct the actions in the story. Carter
begins: "I remember how, that night, I lay awake in the wagon-lit in a tender, delicious ecstasy of excitement, my burning cheek pressed against the impeccable line of the
pillow and the pounding of my heart mimicking that of the great pistons ceaselessly thrusting the train that bore me through the night..." (7). The use of the train
metaphor and the direct nature of her language leads the reader to believe that before her marriage, the narrator had the hope of removing herself from the "quietude" of her
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope she felt at the prospect of marriage was
changed by the reality of her situation. The reader begins to sense, as the narrators story continues, that when this seventeen-year-old child married a much older man, with "streaks
of pure silver in his dark mane" (9), that she mistook the romantic idea of marriage with the reality. Her life, then, unfolds as a mystery would unfold, and
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