Cupid and Psyche as an imperfect narrative

Finishing the Cupid and Psyche for this class, I've come to appreciate more than ever before the context it has within the Metamorphoses. As the first chapter was a story overheard by our man Lucius, so this story should be imagined coming out of the mouth of an old, traveling woman. I noticed in my translation for the written project that there was a distinct use of what I would call meta-humor, breaking the fourth wall. It seems that the characters often identify in dialogue with the veneer of melodrama the exact literary trope as it is occurring to them. Furthermore, the narration seems to irregularly focus on different parts of the tale. In the passage for today (the ending few sections), we get a large buildup of what Psyche is to expect in the underworld, but the trip there is anticlimactic. One could argue that that's because the true climax is actually the opening of the box and Cupid's following intervention, but I was really expecting more drama to occur with the trials Psyche encounters in Hell. I think a good interpretation of this pacing is the natural tendencies of a not-quite-perfect storyteller botching the execution.