The audience of any story generally functions as the recipient of the narration of the story-teller or of a character in the story. This relationship consists of two roles: the passive role of the audience as the recipient of knowledge or ideas and the active role of the teller as the sender of this information. Furthermore, this passive-active role can be differentiated into a figuratively gendered relationship, traditional to a great deal of literature of …showed first 75 words of 1777 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1777 total…s tale behind a sort of shield without actually feeling or experiencing all of the pain, suffering, or adventure that the figuratively male teller has experienced. The sender, then, functions as the giver of knowledge or information that is beyond the receiver’s capacities and assumes dominance over the audience. The audience is able to live vicariously through their narrators, even if this life may not be the most pleasant or, quite frankly, rather horrifying.