The Phantom of the Opera | Style
Narration
The Phantom of the Opera is told from the point of view of a narrator whose name is never given, who is examining the events of the novel thirty years after the fact. The Preface gives details of his search: how he examined the records of the opera library, interviewed people who had been present at the time of the story (including Little Meg Giry and the Persian, whose name is withheld but who proves to be a major part of the action in the book’s final chapters), and examined a skeleton found in the catacombs under the opera house, assuming it to be the...
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