Cheating, lying, and untrustworthy; all examples of an unreliable narrator. An unreliable narrator is defines as a narrator whose credibility has been compromised. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Strawberry Spring”, by Stephen King, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, by Edgar Allen Poe all have unreliable narrators. Each story has an unreliable narrator however, the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” has a mental illness and tells many lies and thinks things that are not necessarily true. This makes her the most unreliable out of the three. The narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the most unreliable. She has a mental illness which causes her to experience vivid hallucinations and does not allow her to think clearly. The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” on the other hand is also unreliable
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On page 5 he says, “my wife is upset. She wants to know where I was last night. I can’t tell her because I don't remember,”(King,5). This could also be from a mental illness. Although both narrators have a mental illness that makes them unreliable, the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is more unreliable because her mental illness causes her to actually see things that are not real. She thinks the hallucinations are real while the narrator of “Strawberry Spring” is able to address the fact that he cannot remember things. For example on page 9 it says, “there are so many of those creeping women… I wonder if they all came out of the wallpaper just as I did,”(Gilman,9). The narrator sees the women outside and in the wall. This makes it hard for the reader to distinguish between real and hallucination. When the narrator is really seeing the hallucinations it makes her more unreliable because the reader
On page 5 he says, “my wife is upset. She wants to know where I was last night. I can’t tell her because I don't remember,”(King,5). This could also be from a mental illness. Although both narrators have a mental illness that makes them unreliable, the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is more unreliable because her mental illness causes her to actually see things that are not real. She thinks the hallucinations are real while the narrator of “Strawberry Spring” is able to address the fact that he cannot remember things. For example on page 9 it says, “there are so many of those creeping women… I wonder if they all came out of the wallpaper just as I did,”(Gilman,9). The narrator sees the women outside and in the wall. This makes it hard for the reader to distinguish between real and hallucination. When the narrator is really seeing the hallucinations it makes her more unreliable because the reader