Marlo Morgan (Narrator)

Marlo is the book's author and narrator, a middle-aged (fifties), female, American health care professional. At the start of the book, and of her physical/spiritual journey, she portrays herself as urbanized, sophisticated, and with a strong sense of self. She believes she is a well rounded, thoughtful, sensitive human being with a degree of enlightenment. Through the course of the narrative, and as a result of the events she writes about, she portrays herself as experiencing a profound illumination, as having realized that that self-image is an illusion and that she was in fact selfish, superficial, and removed from what it truly means to live with awareness. At the narrative's conclusion, while she returns to some of her old ways (of dressing, eating, and communicating), she nevertheless portrays herself as having integrated at least a few of the lessons she learned while on her walkabout...