Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin is a meta-fiction that is deliberately deceptive.
Structured like nesting Russian dolls, it is a novel-within-a novel within another novel, blending three narratives interspersed with newspaper clippings, a letter, and society announcements. It uses these narratives to weave an interchangeable story, slowly making it become clearer over time, with the use of darkness imagery, interlaces allusions to myths, fairy tales, literature, and the Bible to explore the ways we all blindly “assassinate” in personal and political wars calling for sacrifice; making the story come to a whole at the end.

"Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." Thus the novel begins, as does the first-person narrative of Iris Chase, who is writing from the perspective granted by old age. She tells her own story and that of her younger sister
Laura, and how from a young age any chance of simplicity was banished from their lives.
First by circumstances, including world war and economic recession, and secondly, by the intrusion of ruthless, avariciously ambitious people into their world. Margaret used this story perspective especially as a template character
to the other two perspectives. This was the first strand that she used to weave her stories together. It was done this way by the sure use of subtle hints and unlikely illusions within her dark imagery.

Included in Iris' memories, interspersed with the woeful tale of the Chase sisters is another sad story, that of "The Blind Assassin." in which the second narrative beings to take effect from Iris mind.
It's about a man and a woman involved in a clandestine love affair, inevitably doomed of course, but their secret and passionate meetings are highlighted by the sci-fi fable he tells his lover every time they meet. This love affair creates a persona of the time period when Canada was snuffing out all of the union workers. The lady is only known as the women, but it comes to knowledge that Iris is writing about herself. This past Iris is being used as the second strand to tell of events of the present in another light, slowly weaving it in to one
perspective.

In another dimension of time, in a land called Sakiel-Norn, an entire society of people live in luxury but only at the cost of sadistic yearly sacrifices and the hands and eyes of unlucky slave children. The last narrative perspective is hidden subtly within this story. With deft hands the children weave the most beautiful and intricate fabrics with striking colors and fine textures, but after only a few years they are blinded by their incessant work. They are then turned into prostitutes, thieves, and finally, assassins. The story is told in vivid installments. Using the only characters, the blind assassin and the mute priestess as the final elements to reveal the plot of Iris life. When they are spoken of with in the book, they are only ever there to represent the time Iris was ever blind, or mute to the world around her.

“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees…” (Pg. 181)

Fussing all three perspectives and characters together to make character foils

Playing on all three perspectives subtlety with out even knowing at first glance; making it work its magic tying up all the begins in two quick and short sentences. This Russian doll like story is showing how each story within its self is hiding a bit of each other within it each sup story. (*Working On this paragraph need Ideas*)