The Passion

What is the author's style in The Passion by Jeanette Winterson?

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The voice differs between narrators, both in quality and in content. Henri is concerned with people, particularly in how they think and feel. Villanelle is more concerned with abstractions such as love, risk and death. Whereas Henri's thoughts are pensive and introspective, Villanelle tends to be confident and sensual. At the end of the novel, Henri uses one of Villanelle's favorite phrases "I'm telling you stories. Trust me." indicating that he, too, has become an unreliable narrator.