Is The Narrator Worthy?

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I believe that the narrator is not credible because he said he raised himself. The narrator has been dead so long that he forgot he was a dead guy. On page CR30 the narrator says “I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.” This means that the narrator has been dead for a very long time. The scene where the narrator looks at himself in the mirror leads to the suspense in the story. That scene in the story leaves you wondering when the narrator is going to realize he is dead. On page CR24 when the narrator says “I knew that my climb was for the nonce ended; since the slab was the trap-door of an aperture leading to a greater circumference than the lower tower”, you know that something is

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