A Guide to Berlin | Characters
Listener
After the narrator, the unnamed listener—the narrator’s regular drinking partner—is the most important character in ‘‘A Guide to Berlin.’’ The narrator introduces him in the story’s first sentence as his friend, and it is to him that he narrates the odd guide to Berlin that comprises the bulk of the story. Although he is deemed ‘‘the listener,’’ he, ironically, is the only character who speaks in the story. When the reader first hears him in the story’s last section, he is scornfully rejecting the narrator’s guide and complains that the...
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