The narrators of the first two stories seem like mirror images of each other.

Both the narrator and the author would seem to be disqualified by reason of gender.

Despite his third-person status, the narrator seems to be a major character in the book.

Each narrator seems at first reliable, a figure whose weaknesses the novel only slowly uncovers.

The narrator seems to understand little of what Burnside is saying.

The narrator seems to make these references from a modern present day point-of-view.

The narrator seems to be successful and to have no difficulties in conducting his business.

But something is going on in their courtship that the narrator does not seem to understand.

The narrator of "Stroke" seems to have suffered one.

At times, the narrator seems to step aside and allow the characters to speak for themselves in passages of dialogue.