The portrayal of the characters, their ambitions, hopes, successes, failings, their conversations, paint a picture that very much resembles our "modern" way of life.

The narratives use an intriguing combination of techniques. The narratives revolve around historical events.  A historical narrative normally does not include transcripts of conversations (because there was no means to record them).  They do not normally include the characterization of animals, and birds. Historical documents also do not include supernatural phenomena to piece together the events.  Likewise characters in the Puranas have “supernatural” abilities that seem to defy observed phenomena.

When read more than once, the Puranas behave like a kaleidescope and expose different meanings to the same reader.  

Use of this combination of Historical, mythical, “fairy tale” like characterization spurs various reactions in most readers. 

The  reason that this format has been adopted is most probably because the target audience is universal.  It has been written to be read by everyone;  the very young, the young adult, the adult and the old.

The age group and intellectual maturity level of the reader will largely determine how the narratives are interpreted. 

Each individual can extract a different meaning from the same narratives, based on his/her real life experences, maturity and the level of devotion to the Paramathma. The reader will be able to easily identify with the characters described in the Puranas, primarily because of the similarity of the narratives, to our own life experiencesNarayana's avatara as Krishna Paramathma is the thread that runs right thru the scripture and binds the different parts of the epic together.  

 Puranas have been written in a format that allows interpretation to make it applicable to all aspects of human existence. 

The Puranas are timeless in the true sense of the word and are meant for all audiences and age groups.  Though they were drafted thousands of years ago, the reader will not be aware of the time difference.