The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga

The White Tiger: Frame Story 1 key example

Frame Story
Explanation and Analysis—My Life's Story:

Part of The White Tiger’s clever narrative style owes to its sprawling frame story structure. Balram offers his life story to Jiabao in the first pages, supposedly as a gesture of solidarity that shows the “truth about Bangalore.” Accordingly, The White Tiger organizes itself around the nightly installments of Balram’s personal narrative. What follows is a real-time narrator who retells his past, a story subtly embedded within another.