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Humans in their different languages, territories and cultures have recourse to the narrative discourse as creative space to preserve their traditions, rituals and visions throughout history. So it is not altogether strange to use the narrative devices for those noble purposes. This may explain the sovereignty of the narrative as a prominent genre in both classical and modern eras. The romantic European nineteenth century is no exception. In addition to the poetic style and poetic devices exercised in verse composition, the Romantic literary circles exploited the narrative style as one mode of expression. Here and elsewhere, the language of the narrative is not merely a set of combinatory well-formed structures; they are the vehicle by and through which the writer and the character(s) convey his or her ideology or politics of life. These literary verbal visions, in one tradition, lend themselves to text analysis under the rubric of literary stylistics. Literary stylistics is a discipline whose main concern is to underpin linguistic aspects selected in a literacy text. The term “deals with the variations characteristic of literature as a genre of the „style' of individual authors” (Crystal. 2008:460). Such elucidation stresses the correlation of the study of style to language as a human phenomenon. Style, as Hendricks (1980:49) has put it, is the study of style, in this elucidation, is correlated to language as a human phenomenon. “a differential mode of linguistic expression that is manifested on lexico-grammatical level”. The study of the style, in one stylistic trend, is based on choice or selection whereby the writer selects a set of linguistic constituents to build up the mental vision of the world. This literary construction may take the form of a plain layer or one-way layer or multi-layers. Language itself is a set of forms or strata. In Systemic Functional Grammar (FG), the human language is contracted of phonological, semantic, syntactic and textual strata of levels. The notion of the mutli-layers could be detected in modern linguistic theory as in Hjelmslev's Glossmatics, Lamb's Stratification al Grammar and Halliday's Sytemic Functional Grammar (SFG). All these linguistic models stress the framework of stratification because standard language, the hierarchical systems do exist in the veins of literary texts, of which is narrative. A narrative, in the broadest scope, is a set of combinatory events (real or imaginary) which is constructed in a specific code (written or spoken). Danesi (2007: 74- 5) elaborates the term by maintaining that
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