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And many of the stories, including the frame story, promote a misogynistic worldview.

As a longtime storyteller, he also savored the primacy of narrative within the stories — particularly the frame story.

The metafictional frame story of the novel is very different from the movie; it’s about a screenwriter, his failing marriage and his distant son.

There is no such frame story in the stage musical, where the audience to Usnavi’s tale is, well, the audience, and there’s no epilogue involving Vanessa and Usnavi’s daughter.

There’s a 10th-century document from Baghdad that describes the “Hazar Afsaneh” and mentions its frame story, about a wicked king who kills a concubine every night until one of these doomed wives manages to stave off her execution by telling him stories.