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Unreliable narrator
Unreliable narrator









unreliable narrator

He tries to bring us on side as he talks of his perverse infatuation with an adolescent girl and attempts to justify his actions. Humbert Humbert, the narrator and main character of Lolita, flatters the reader. Because the young unnamed wife doesn’t understand what’s going on for a long time, neither does the reader. This thrilling novel feels surprisingly current. This 1930s Gothic classic is well-crafted suspenseful thriller that holds its tension on re-reading as well.

unreliable narrator

The story narrated by Nick Carraway, but can we really trust his version of the tale? The answer of this differs from reader to reader. This classic captures the American Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, while weaving a wistful story of love and loss. Prodigiously rich Jay Gatsby has built a mansion on Long Island Sound for the only purpose of pursuing his lost love Daisy Buchanan, who married another man while Gatsby was serving overseas. For few of us this is delight to decide what happens next by ourselves and some of us just close the book with frustrations.ĭo you need some ideas of this category of narration? I’m sharing few of my favorite books with unreliable narrator and ambiguous endings. It’s on readers how they fill the blanks. Readers reach to the final page without the knowledge of what’s actually happening or happened. Some stories are too ambiguous that they don’t resolve their plots. But that’s not what we are looking here.) (We’re all unreliable narrator, because our version of any events or occurrence or incidents is just one of many. Sometimes they are consciously and intentionally lying, sometimes they misunderstood the situations, and perhaps they’re drunk, or amnesiac, or suffer from some other conditions that keep us doubting their version of story. There are so many reasons behind narrator’s reliability. Sometime we’ll draw our own conclusions and judge the characters as the author didn’t do it for us. We’ll evaluate the situations and characters critically in the book to figure out what’s going on. When the narrator is unreliable and can’t be trusted, we, the reader have to think for ourselves to figure out the story. Books with unreliable narrator are the most intriguing stories to be read.











Unreliable narrator