Re: Unreliable Narrators

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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

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