The credibility of the narrator in The Outsider is not that reliable. The narrator may be telling his “truth” but that doesn’t mean he’s completely right. His mindset to unsophisticated for him to understand what is actually happening around him. Even if you understood the narrator that wouldn’t Change the amount of suspense. The suspense is created by his vivid descriptions of his surroundings/sights and sounds that are all around the castle. “vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vine-encumbered trees that silently wave twisted branches far aloft.” Is what the author states in paragraph 1.
