Frame Story?

A frame story is a secondary story embedded within the main story. One prime example of a modern frame story would be The Princess Bride. In The Princess Bride, a grandfather is reading a book, titled The Princess Bride to his sick grandson, in order to comfort him and get his mind off of his sickness. The Princess Bride is a fictional story, written by a nonexistent author, S. Morgenstern. Starting off, the movie takes place in a young boy’s room, and the only characters introduced at first are the boy and his grandfather. Quickly after their introduction into the movie, the grandfather begins to read his grandson a story, which brings in a good amount more characters that eventually become the main characters. The plot of the film, The Princess Bride, is shown through the story as it is being read. The story, itself, has been passed from father to son for generations. It is a tale of adventure and love, and how the two coincide with each other. The purpose of the film is to get such ideas across to the viewer, but it is presented in a way that can be understood by those of nearly all age groups. Though the grandson and grandfather are the first to be introduced, their parts in the film become insignificant when referring to the plot.