The Only Use of
narrator
in
The Scarlet Letter
- There was an aged handicraftsman, it is true, who had been a citizen of London at the period of Sir Thomas Overbury's murder, now some thirty years agone; he testified to having seen the physician, under some other name, which the narrator of the story had now forgotten, in company with Dr. Forman, the famous old conjurer, who was implicated in the affair of Overbury.
p. 86.0narrator = someone who tells a story
Definition:
someone who tells a story--especially the main voice in a documentary, or a character who talks directly to the audience in a movie, play or other performance