Re: Unreliable Narrators
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 01:20:27 -0700 (PDT)
I respectfully disagree. I think that Gulliver is one of the most reliable
of narrators, if you take into account the neccessary suspension of
disbelief. I found Gulliver a most amicable chap.
Thor
>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
> >
>
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