The style of the narrative in Silas
Marneris very similar to that employed by the narrator of a fairy tale. You
have a clear beginning, middle, and end of each of the character's stories, and you can
see how each has a direct effect in the storyline of the main character. Silas is
portrayed like the banished, innocent victim turned cruel and angry over a series of
events that are directly connected to special people in his life. His abrasive and
selfish ways are realistic and yet semi exaggerated ways to expose his main problem of
trusting people and sharing what he had earned.
The way
that other characters are portrayed are also realistic but with characteristics almost
too fairy-talish such as for example the treason of William Dane, the shunning of Sarah,
and all the other things people did to him unfairly. This is how he employs his style to
describe characters.
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