Frame Story
The Pilgrim’s Progress
by John Bunyan
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The Pilgrim’s Progress: Frame Story 1 key example

Key Examples in The Pilgrim’s Progress

Part 1: Fleeing the City of Destruction
Explanation and Analysis—I Dreamed a Dream:

Pilgrim's Progress is narrated not by Christian or Christiana, but by an unnamed narrator who relates a sequence of long, detailed dreams. The novel opens with a scant introduction to the narrator, setting up a frame story:

As I walk’d through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream.