Singer’s “Gimpel the Fool” is written in first person point of view, and the narrator, Gimpel, is the main character in the story. In the opening paragraph in the story Singer shows how reliable of a narrator that Gimpel is. Gimpel shares many of the nicknames he has had given to him in school, including “imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glump, ninny, and fool.” He then says that he was considered a fool because he …showed first 75 words of 499 total…

…showed last 75 words of 499 total…Gimpel is far from being a fool. The only fools are the villagers who spent all their lives trying to make Gimpel seem like a fool. Gimpel never argues with the people, instead he only listens to their stupid lies. After all, lies can come true. He only fools in this story are all the villagers. In the eyes of the villagers Gimpel was a fool, but in the eyes of God he was wise.