The Storytellers in The Merchant of Venice In this play two characters have a bigger role than one might imagine. Salerio and Solanio are the storytellers in The Merchant of Venice. They fill in important information that the audience needs to full understand the play. First, the two names differ by only a few letters, they are so close that one might confuse the two and think that they are the same person. I feel …showed first 75 words of 602 total…

…showed last 75 words of 602 total…final scene left in the play. Those two scenes tell their own story with no breaks in the action. There is no use for the two storyteller characters because everything else is acted out. These two characters have a vital role in the play. When there is information that has to be told it is there job. They keep the action of the play going without the audience having to watch a lot of scenes.