The voice that narrates "Dante and the Lobster" is a third person narrator who can see inside the head of Belacqua and, at one point, inside the head of the grocer. For the most part, this is a traditional narrator, reliable, who plays no games with the reader and who subsumes any personality he or she has into Belacqua's personality. We hear Belacqua's thoughts, and the narrator reports them as if they were his or her own: "the first thing to do was to lock the door. Now nobody could come at him."