Who is The Narrator from The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer and what is their importance? The_Collected_Stories_of_Isaac_Bashevis_Singer English & Literature The Narrator | The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

In many stories, the narrator identifies himself as "I" but bears many characteristics in common with Isaac Bashevis Singer, the actual narrator/author. In this fictional mask-within-a-mask, Singer writes of his own experiences as a Polish immigrant Jew who lives variously in New York City or Miami Beach and is a newspaper columnist for a doomed Yiddish newspaper. This occurs in The Cabbalist of East Broadway, A Day in Coney Island, The Joke, Alone, The Admirer, and others. Often, the narrator, a retiring sort of fellow, is seemingly shocked when someone identifies him as the newspaper columnist, but there is also a part of the narrator who secretly flourishes on the recognition. The narrator presents himself as a worldly-wise and reticent observer of human nature whose passions for literature, women, and reflection occasionally come into clear view.