The narrator is unreliable in an emotional way. There will be quotes and reasoning's why he's an unreliable narrator because of his emotions. The following two quotes are examples of him being an emotional narrator: "Once, in the night, my mother called me to her bed and told me that she could not endure the pain, that she wanted to die. I held her hand and begged her to be quiet. That rights I ceased to react to my mother; my feeling were frozen. I merely waited upon her, knowing that she was suffering". The quote shows that he still cares about his mother, even though she was hard on him. Richard may have thought his mother may not be with him anymore. "I went through the days with a stunned consciousness, unable to believe what had happened.
