Narrative Analysis and Narratology

W E ALL KNOW how to tell narratives more or less well; we tell them more or less frequently; and we distinguish them from nonnarratives more or less strictly. In other words, we have certain intuitions (or have internalized certain rules) about what constitutes a narrative and what does not. Moreover, we often agree as to whether or not a given set of symbols is a narrative. Thus, Camus's The Stranger, Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood, the passage in the Gospel on the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), and even such insignificant texts as