In The Princess Bride, the narrative hook comes within the first few pages of the novel when we find out that Westley, Buttercup's lover, will be going on a voyage to find his fortune. Buttercup tells him that she fears she will never see him again, enticing the reader. Soon after, Buttercup finds out that the Dread Pirate Roberts, who leaves no prisoners, took over Westley's ship. She is devastated by this, and even more …showed first 75 words of 1725 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1725 total…ercome death. The tendency of his characters to speak too much, rather than in clipped phrases, as well as his own tendency to interrupt the text perhaps too much, lends very little to the mystery to the story. We know the characters backgrounds, awkward phrases, and motivations. This makes it impossible to reduce any of them or the text itself to the simplicity of the ordinary child's fairytale. This is an all-ages story of fantasy.