Answer: While Pepy’s work is presented as autobiography, it is less of a formal narrative that The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Pepy’s writing isn’t as formal or coherent and serves more as a record than as a narrative. Although both account for events that affected both men personally, Equiano describes his experience more emotionally because it changes the course of his life to become a free man. Pepy’s on the other hand, provides an account of the historical event of the Great Fire of London, which affected a large population of people at once.