Re: Unreliable Narrators
Jeremy Green (jergreen@adelphia.net)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:14:32 -0400
an unreliable narrator:
gulliver in Gulliver's Travels.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org>
To: <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: Unreliable Narrators
> At 7:17 AM -0700 on 6/13/99, you wrote:
>
> > Furthermore, does
> > anyone know of other authors and works that
> > use that same device?
>
> Huck Finn springs instantly to mind. Mark Twain (and Ring Lardner, in
> "Haircut") both liked to use unreliable narrators.
>
> Also Nick Carraway, in The Great Gatsby, when his sight is blinded by what
> he imagines to be Gatsby's magnificence -- until he learns the truths
> beneath the illusion.
>
> --tim o'connor
>