reading. Where appropiate, I will make comments relevant to issues of characterization. Narrative criticism has come to be understood as (1) the analysis of the storyworld of a narrative and (2) the analysis of its implied rhetorical impact on readers. First, the analysis of the storyworld focuses on the world inside a narrative with its own times and places, its own characters, its past and future, its own sets of values, and its series of events moving forward in some meaningful way. This storyworld