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 was easily taken in. He gave an example of one of the situations that earned him that title. "They said, "Gimpel, you know the rabbi's wife has been brought to childbed?" So I skipped school. Well, it turned out to be a lie. How was I supposed to? She hadn't had a big belly. But I never really looked at her belly."
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