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Yes, the narrator can be a secondary character. The beautiful Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller is about the warrior Achilles and his life, but told by his lover Patroclus. The Great Gatsby is...
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2019-12-13T12:00:30Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T04:27:50Z (over 4 years ago)
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Yes, the narrator can be a secondary character. The beautiful [_Song of Achilles_](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0062060627) by Madeline Miller is about the warrior Achilles and his life, but told by his lover Patroclus. [_The Great Gatsby_](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0743273567) is told by Nick Carraway, almost a tertiary character in the love story between Gatsby and Daisy. All the [Sherlock Holmes](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0553328255) stories are about Holmes, but almost all are narrated by Dr. Watson. (Although if I might interject... why, why, why are you having a woman as the narrator if the story "revolves around the guy"? Why can't the woman narrate her _own_ story? Why isn't her story interesting enough to tell?)
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2015-07-14T23:59:33Z (almost 9 years ago)
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