Strawberry Spring By Stephen King: A Narrative Analysis

Creative Title !!!!! Robert Evans, American film producer, claims, “There are three sides to every story: my side, your side and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.” Although everyone has different sides to every story; it is evident that the narrators from “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Strawberry Spring” by Stephen King are all deemed as unreliable because of the way they express their memories. They all have their own characteristics that categorize them into the group of untrustworthy when it comes to sharing their side of the story. There is a delusional killer, a mentally unstable hallucinator and a forgetful murderer. All of these narrators are …show more content…
The woman from “The Yellow Wallpaper” cannot be trusted when it comes to telling a story more so than the others. Some may say that the caretaker from “The Tell Tale Heart” is the most unreliable because he claims that he is able to hear his victim’s heart beating from underneath the floorboards after he was murdered, “But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst” (Poe 3). While the caretaker hears noises, Jane actually saw a lady on the wall and could smell the wallpaper, none of which were actually present. Shown in “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator claims to have seen a woman creeping in the walls of her bedroom, “It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight” (Perkins