The aim of this essay is to analyze and compare the narrative situations proposed by Franz Stanzel in the dystopian novels Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Handmaid's Tale by Marguerite Atwood. For this, I will focus on the aspects of focus (reflection), reader-narrator relationship, narrative distance, knowledge and reliability and demonstrate that they affect readers' interpretation of the novel in a significant way. Ultimately, I will draw conclusions about how these techniques serve to move stories away from their sci-fi framework to ask even more disconcerting questions about human existence. To begin with, in both novels the narrator is clearly a first-person protagonist and coincident with the reflector. Their perspective (focus) is internal since they exist in the fictional world they recreate. On the one hand, Kathy H. is a narrator identified by her name and age and who addresses the reader from the start as another “caregiver”: “My name is Kathy H. I am thirty-one years. , and I have been a caregiver for over eleven years now. (Ishiguro 5) This immediately involves the reader and creates intimacy between them and the narrator. On the other hand, The Handmaid's Tale begins with a description of the setting narrated by a voice belonging to one of the fertile and healthy women, but the reader is not directly addressed. Moreover, we know the name of Atwood's narrator in a conversation with Serena Joy quite late in the story but he is conventionally chosen based on the name of his master. We can infer that his identity has been stolen by Gilead's social regime and have a premonition that the narrator will be one of the oppressed people. (Pei-ning Lee 3) In both ...... middle of article ......tip D. "Reducing the dystopian distance: pseudo-documentary framing in near-future fiction. " Science Fiction Studies, 17 (March 1990): 25-40. Internet. April 10, 2014. Pei-ning Lee, Valeria. “Subverting Time and Space in Gilead: Exploring Spatial Practices in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Interdisciplinary.net. npWeb. April 7, 2014. Staels, Hilde. “The Handmaid's Tale: Resistance Through Narrating by Margaret Atwood. » Critical Insights (227-245) From English Studies 76.5 (1995): 455-464. Internet. April 10, 2014. Toker, Leona, Daniel Chertoff. “Reader Response and Topoi Recycling in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.” Partial responses: Journal of Literature and History of Ideas, Vol.6.1 (January 2008): 163-180. Internet. April 1, 2014. Wisker, Gina. Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Reader's Guide. London; New York: Continuum, c2010. Internet. April 2. 2014.