To make this ambivalence more poignant, Kimberly Nance puts it differently. Nance observes in her contribution to the special issue of Style that "[e]ven in an experiential model that offers a fairly straightforward reason why one might need to hear (a new version of) a well-remembered story of one's own experience, a key question remains to be answered: who is doing the telling?" (371). Whoever the referent of the ''you''・utterance, what this Protean, shape-shifting quality makes ambiguous is the origin of the narrative utterances, and it can make uncertain the stability and therefore the authority of that origin. The notion that this might present a particular problem for reading narrative is supported by Culler's claim that 4