Recently, I began to write a little realistic fiction. As it was my first attempt it wasn’t very good. There were many details that I failed to include. However, as I was the author, narrator, and protagonist, it has made it incredibly easy to identify the different variations in presentation. That aside, as the story is a Romance, the plot regards, the life of an adolescent male before he is married, his attempt and success to court a female, their marriage, and life after marriage, where the protagonist describes his life after marriage and compares it to the notions of what he thought marriage would be like when he was younger. However, the discourse does not do a good job showing this to other readers, as this story was written by myself, for myself. The discourse could only explain this plot to the other characters in the story, or if this plot was to be acted out in real life.

Secondly, Culler explains in the “What stories do” section, that narrative is used to :

1. Give us pleasure, by allowing us to enjoy realistic events with twists that we don’t expect, as well as allowing us to imagine and write down our deepest desires in these events.
2. Teach about the world, by allowing us to understand the ideas and perspectives of others through their own minds. Be it from the perspective of someone older, younger, opposite gender, poorer, richer, or someone from a different era. It has the ability to show you the differences between those like you and those with whom you share nothing in common.
3. Police, by not only taking our desires and shaping them by reality, but instilling ideas of their own, that are seen as  acceptable or believable.
4. Provide a mode of social criticism, by turning the failures, the horrors and the unknowns of reality into inviting tales to allow the readers to see and understand why the situations are intolerable.

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