What evidence can you find that the narrator's state of mind may be deteriorating in The Fall of...

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Unreliable Narrators:

A narrator is said to be unreliable when the reader can't trust him to relay the ''facts'' of the story. Sometimes the narrator is unreliable due to his particular point of view or role in the story, as in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Other times, the narrator is unreliable because of his mental state. One of the most well-known examples of this type of narrator is in Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Tell-Tale Heart.'' In this classic example, the narrator pleads with the reader to believe that he is sane and rational, which is the first clue that he is not. While not all examples of mentally ill narrators are this obvious, Poe's works in particular have famously unreliable narrators.

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