Atonement
by Ian McEwan

Atonement: Frame Story 1 key example

Key Examples in Atonement

Frame Story
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Atonement's epilogue delivers a big revelation: after the third-person narrator gives way to Briony's first-person perspective, the reader discovers that she has actually written everything until this point. With this epilogue, McEwan transforms the narrative into a kind of frame story, making the reader retrospectively embed the novel's three constitutive parts within the context of Briony's composition of them.