| The narrators relentlessly question their textual fellows as one version of a story challenges and even annihilates its counterparts. |
| The problem is that some Heldentenors are fine at projecting roles such as Tristan, but aren't natural narrators. |
| Neither poor old Zack's whiskey nor all the puzzlings of narrators and readers will ever know what Zack did. |
| Although both narrators are prone to purple passages, the texture of Singer's Gothic prose remains one of the novel's strengths. |
| The narrators are often strangely limited third-person or unreliable first-person narrators, or there are multiple, shifting narrators. |
| The novel has two wildly different narrators, and two elaborately intertwined stories. |
