Dec 19, 2009

Quicker Than the Eye | Characters

The principal character of all of these stories is Bradbury the storyteller. "Remember Sascha?" "The Finnegan," "Quicker Than the Eye," "Dorian in Excelsus," and "Bug" each feature a first-person narrator. This narrator is mildly self-effacing or self-deprecating. He is also male, amused, enthusiastic (sometimes to the point of bombast), and traditional—a combination of the voice of Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes tales with the Marlovian ruminativeness of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902; see separate entry). This narrator is never detached. The autobiographical...