No Meta Narrative

The second scene being a locked room is when Quinn settles in a narrow alleyway and keeps watching outside the apartment to protect Peter but only finds out the apartment is empty, Peter Stillman and Virgina Stillman also disappeared. Here, the author creates the prima facie impression which the victim has vanished into thin air all of a sudden, making the story another mystery waiting to be solved. Quinn is outside the building day and night, which drives the readers fall into a delusion that Peter Stillman and Virgina Stillman succeeded in getting out of the building or the perpetrator makes it possible to take them out of the room under the protection. “From there he could observe all the comings and goings at the Stillman’s building. No

The meta-narrative has many techniques, such as the author's appearance, parody (intertextuality), pastiche, irony, temporal distortions, language playfulness, multilaminate narration, etc.. Multiple narratives refer to the metafiction techniques of storytelling. The characters in the works tell others' stories and create another character, making them mutually act as authors, readers, and each other. There are several meta-narrations used in early detective fictions, like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. In this novel, the murder is actually the narrator “I”. Being the only person who knows the truth, the narrator tries to hide some important information from the readers, so the plots can keep going on, and the detective can do his job. So is the narrator in The city of Glass who tells the story in fragments, because there is the possibility that he isn’t at the crime scene as there are two narrative levels. The novel's protagonist's description of Quinn's story is the first narrative levels. Stillman and Virginia’s accounts of Dak and Peter’s story are the second narrative level. In the first narrative level, the story's protagonist Stillman and Pete's wife Virginia were narrators who also wrote or told stories. The second narrative level has two stories. The first is Stillman's book, which tells the story of Duke helping Milton to sort out the data and try to rebuild the Tower of Babel. The second is Virginia's story of Peter being tested by his father. Multiple narratives make textual texts and fictional acts consist of the stories. The trueness and the false facts of the story sometimes confuse the readers. The narrator of the story may be the hero of the story, and the narrator can have multiple identities. Remember Don Quixote is mentioned in the conversation, especially the