First, Mayer should begin sharing a broader personalnarrative with employees to stem the female stereotyping and backlash that followed her controversial announcement.
As Miss Didion moves from childhood into adulthood, her personalnarrative becomes intertwined with the history of her native state and her quest to understand it.
Although Mr Portillo has never embellished his original confession, he has woven this part of his biography into a tedious narrative of personal self-discovery.
He spends the first half of the book justifying his redefinition of life in a lengthy narrative that combines personal memoir, Zen-like musings and scientific explanations.
The narrative of street fighting is interleaved with personal memories of a previous age: here the house of a beloved aunt, there the studio where she acted in a television drama.