As the narrative progresses, the focus of "Family Matters" shifts from Nariman to Yezad.
At first she seems almost a caricature but as her narrative progresses she becomes the most complex of the women.
As the narrative progresses, the men widen their legs, jostling one another in territorial competition, male bonding or both.
He simply wanted people.' Will himself has moments of real amorality, although he mellows as the narrative progresses.
When a comedian tells a story, he deliberately sets out to create a certain tension in his listeners, which mounts as the narrative progresses.
As the narrative progresses, we begin hearing less and less about martens and weasels and more about the people he encounters on his journey.
There is no conventional narrative progress towards the killer's capture - no accumulation of clues, cat-and-mouse mind games, fatal overreaching etc.
As the video installation breaks the original film up into four-minute loops shown on two dozen monitors, however, the stately narrative progress is replaced by distracting fragmentation.
As the narrative progresses, it becomes clear that Andrew's painstaking efforts to illuminate his life is only bringing down the shadows.
But as the narrative progresses, and fissures begin to show in their relationships, that "we" begins to fracture, and is winnowed down to an eventual "I".
To call this a book of ideas is to dodge the fact that it is not truly a book of narrative progress, drama, change, conflict or insight.
