The purpose 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 Margaret Atwood . To this end, I will focus on the aspects of focalization (reflection), reader-narrator relationship, narrative distance, knowledge and reliability and demonstrate that they significantly influence readers' interpretation of the novel. Ultimately, I will draw conclusions about how these techniques serve to alienate narratives from their science fiction setting to ask even more perplexing questions about human existence. To begin with, in both novels the narrator is clearly a first-person protagonist and coincides with the spotlight. Their perspective (focus) is internal as they exist in the fictional world they recreate. On the one hand, Kathy H. is a narrator who identifies herself by her name and age and who from the beginning addresses the reader as a fellow "caregiver": "My name is Kathy H. I'm thirty-one years old, and I'm an assistant. for more than eleven years now." (Ishiguro 5) This immediately involves the reader and creates intimacy between him and the narrator. The Handmaid's Tale instead begins with a description of the setting told by a voice belonging to one of the healthy and fertile but he does not address the reader directly. Furthermore, 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 his master's name. We can infer that his identity has been stolen by the regime society of Gilead and have the premonition that the narrator will be one of the oppressed. (Pei-ning Lee 3) In both... in the center of the paper... trick D. "Reducing the dystopian distance: pseudo-documentary framing in the narrative of near future". Studies in Science Fiction, 17 (March 1990): 25-40. Network. 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. np Web. 07 April 2014.Staels, Hilde. “Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Resistance Through Narrative.” Critical Insights (227-245) from English Studies 76.5 (1995): 455-464. Network. April 10, 2014.Toker, Leona, Daniel Chertoff. "Reader Response and the Recycling of Topoi in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, Vol.6.1 (January 2008): 163-180. Network. April 1, 2014.Wisker, Gina. Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Reader's Guide. London; New York: Continuum, c2010. Network. 02 April. 2014.