How does the author enable the reader to share the experience of the main character? Patrick Suskind’s use of visual imagery captures the audiences’ sense of smell by dragging the reader into this world of hideous stench. Perfume is unique as it creates a reality by ‘painting a picture’ in the mind of the reader through the olfactory senses. Suskind does, on many occasions, manipulate the readers’ basic instincts through the novel’s protagonist, …showed first 75 words of 1848 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1848 total…for grotesque descriptions of smells and murder at the beginning of the novel. Following this, is why Grenouille shows such a strong desire to obtain the perfect scent, how he yearns for acceptance and not to be an outcast in society. We sympathise with Grenouille and how society is ignorant of his gift yet he displays cold and ruthless behaviour. We also are disgusted with the lengths that he goes to to disect these smells.