Grenouille story is told by a particular and critical narrative voice. Taking into account the details presented by the reading, answer the questions:
Identify the narrative voice of the novel and describe it.
According to the narrator description: What does Grenouille look like? Which was his gift? Support your answers with passages or quotes.
What is the historical and social context of the story?
Read the quote and explain it in your own words: "His story will be told here. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name-in contrast to the names of other gifted abominations, de Sade’s, for instance, or Saint-Just’s, Fbuche’s, Bonaparte’s, etc.-has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, to wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent." (Suskind, s.f, p. 3).
1. In the text it can be seen that the person who is telling it is an omniscient narrator, since he tells the story of how he is remembering in a descriptive way and the person who tells the story knows everything about the main character of the story 2. The narrator, when Grenovile was a greedy boy, he used to annoy people a lot 3. This story takes place in France in the 17th century, middle class people in Paris were becoming rich and educated, life was hard for people like Gren Oville, they were poor and orphans