A phone call startles me out of a deep sleep. I sit up straight in bed, my heart pounding. "Hello?" "Hello, Kevin." I know his v
oice immediately, but am too stunned to speak. "You must be surprised to hear from me. We haven't spoken in quite a while." "No, we haven't." In fact, it has been almost ten years. As the silence stretches out between us, I recall a time, years ago, when I considered Matt my best friend. We were practically inseparable. . . . "Kevin, come inside!" my mother called. I pretended not to hear her. Matt and I were busy playing superheroes in the backyard. whats the interior story in this
The interior story, as the name suggests, is the story within another story. In this passage, the frame story is the speaker, Kevin, receiving a phone call from Matt, a friend he hasn't seen in almost ten years. The frame story is the one that involves the interior story. The interior story begins with the line '"Kevin, come inside!" my mother called.' This line separates the current moment from the moment the speaker is remembering - he and Matt playing outside; Kevin's mother calling him in. There is another story being told now, one about the past. But it is told as if it were happening at this moment. We have, from this moment on, an interior story.
