The Storyteller is a local man who, at night, entertains the patrons of the coffeehouse by impersonating different people, animals, and things. His impersonations include the dog, the tree, the coin, Death, the horse, Satan, the color red, and the two dervishes. Toward the end of the novel, the storyteller also tells a tale about his conflicted feelings towards his own gender identity. The storyteller is disdainful of religious zealots and he mocks the Hoja of Erzurum, whose followers ultimately kill the storyteller during their raid of the coffeehouse.
The Storyteller Quotes in My Name is Red
The My Name is Red quotes below are all either spoken by The Storyteller or refer to The Storyteller. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 54
Quotes
My fickle heart longs for the West when I'm in the East and for the East when I’m in the West.
My other parts insist I be a woman when I'm a man and a man when I’m a woman.
How difficult it is being human, even worse is living a human’s life.
I only want to amuse myself frontside and backside, to be Eastern and Western both.
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The Storyteller Quotes in My Name is Red
The My Name is Red quotes below are all either spoken by The Storyteller or refer to The Storyteller. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 54
Quotes
My fickle heart longs for the West when I'm in the East and for the East when I’m in the West.
My other parts insist I be a woman when I'm a man and a man when I’m a woman.
How difficult it is being human, even worse is living a human’s life.
I only want to amuse myself frontside and backside, to be Eastern and Western both.
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