Posted by Robby Grossman on October 28, 19102 at 21:19:23:

In Reply to: Frame-Tale posted by Jenny on February 22, 19101 at 20:03:17:

: I'm a senior in highschool and I'm taking College English 1102. I'm supposed to write a 3-5 page ization of a any story I want out of "Lost in the Funhouse". I don't want to do the same story as everyone else so I chose frame-tale which is at the very beginning of the book. Does anyone have any ideas of how to make a paper out of three lines. I figured I could maybe relate it to Floating Opera which also uses "once upon a time", or I could talk about the Mobius strip. Please send message soon. My paper is due in like 3 days! Thanks

Frame-tale is far more than literal...
Barth uses the redundant infinitely looping frame tale to show us how conventional literature is repetitive and redundant; readers are learning nothing new. It implies that the book, "Lost in the Funhouse" will be different and offer something new to the readers.

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