Ian Mcewans Enduring Love.

One reviewer commented that 'McEwan is interested in the ways in which we construct coherent narratives out of chaos.' Examine the narrative techniques in Enduring Love in the light of this comment. In Enduring Love McEwan presents characters who, when confronted with a complex, distressing situation which revolves around the very modern disease of stalking, are driven to search for the truth. Each of the three central characters has his, or her, way of …

…evidence. He has knowledge and understanding of Parry's behaviour which is based solely on fact. As we can see the appendix one verifies his construction of the truth. The letter at the end of the novel is religious and is Jed's coherent narrative and the novel as a whole is an art, verifying Clarissa's version of the truth. From this we must assume that we need all three methods to arrive at our coherent narrative.