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The narrator is clearly both biased and crazy in "By the Waters of Babylon" and therefore is unreliable.
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it means they are giving it to you the way the narrator sees it. If the narrator is a child, obviously the child would have less experience, and would percieve things differently than an adult would.
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This is the first Ishiguro book I've read, and while it contains the precise elegant prose I had anticipated, the story itself collapses under the strain of Ishiguro's awkward and inept use of the unreliable narrator. The unreliable narrato...
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First of all, Edgar Allan Poe is not the narrator of the story, he is the author, make sure you make that distinction. Montressor is the narrator of the story, he's the one telling his close friend of what happened with Fortunato. Montresso...
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For some reason, I never wonder about reliability when reading a book, even for a class. It always surprises me when the question pops up. Perhaps I'm too naive but I tend to take things at face value, so if that's how it happened in the bo...
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I would say Odysseus is generally reliable. The unreliable narrator is a relatively modern fictional device; I can't recall any work from before the 19th century that really uses it, and hardly any before the 20th.
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I knew immediately that Carol was going to be a fantasist and liar. She has a great imagination and as a child there is not much for it to feed on. Later she uses it as protective covering. Her unreliable account is part of the tension that...
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I would just like to add that you should always remember that a first-person narrator only gives his/her viewpoint of the events. It isn't Montresor's insanity that would necessarily make him unreliable, but the fact that we know only what ...
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Humbert Humbert in Lolita is one of the most famous. Not only does his love for pre-pubescent girls color his narration, but he has occasional bouts with insanity throughout the book (a common theme in Nabokov novels) so that it becomes har...
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