Pale Fire | Techniques
There are three parallel lines of plot in Pale Fire, which follow the three major characters: Shade, Kinbote/ Charles the Beloved, and Jack Grey/ Jakob Gradus. The three plot lines intersect in Shade's murder (which occurs immediately after he has finished the poem); however, the way in which the intersection is to be interpreted depends entirely on which interpretation of the novel's "reality" one relies on.
The chief reason for the "unreadability" of Pale Fire is that the reader discovers very early on that Kinbote's commentary, at least on the surface, has...
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