The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
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The Nightingale: Frame Story 1 key example

Key Examples in The Nightingale

Frame Story
Explanation and Analysis—Vianne's Memory:

The Nightingale itself is told as a story within a story. In the novel's first chapter, readers hear from the first-person perspective of an elderly, dying woman in Oregon who has some connections to the French and to World War II. However, readers do not discover her full identity until the end of the novel, when her point of view appears again to conclude the story. The bulk of The Nightingale takes place in France during the 1940s, a story later revealed to be a flashback from the first narrator's intimate past. Thus, the novel's beginning and end—which take place in a different time period and setting—form the frame of the primary story.