Unreliable Character
Unreliable Narrator
Both narrators in The Tell Tale Heart and The Catcher in the Rye are seen as unreliable way they speak to the reader, and act. In this case both characters are very similar because they use exaggeration, lies, and have a necessity of saying the truth; but they are also very different in the way they act, and the ways they use exaggerations and lies. Both narrators in Catcher in the Rye and in Tell Tale Heart show their unreliability throughout their exaggerations, lies, and their necessity of saying the truth. In Tell Tale Heart the reader does not have a lot of information about the narrator. All the reader knows is that the narrator is taking care of an old men because the old men is blind and decides to kill him because he is obsessed with one of the old men’s eye. We do not know more about the relationship between the narrator and the old man. What is given to the reader about the narrator is that he hears voices and sees things. This is the first clue showing that the narrator is unreliable. Throughout the story we will dissect the narrators unreliability.
On the other side in Catcher in the Rye, the narrator, Holden, a 16 years old teenager has a lot going through his mind. Holden first fails out of four schools, then he manifests complete apathy toward his future; he is also hospitalized, and visited by a psychoanalyst, for an unspecified complaint, and he is unable to connect with other people. With gives the reader a lot of fact given from the start showing that Holden is an unreliable narrator. The reader is also introduce to the fact that Holden has gone through a lot at his young age, the death of his brother Allie and the suicide of one of his school mates. Another facet of Holden’s personality is that he is very judgmental. Holden throughout the book criticizes almost every person he walks by. This can show the reader that Holden is trying to convince himself that he is better than others, that he is superior in a sort
Both narrators in The Tell Tale Heart and The Catcher in the Rye are seen as unreliable way they speak to the reader, and act. In this case both characters are very similar because they use exaggeration, lies, and have a necessity of saying the truth; but they are also very different in the way they act, and the ways they use exaggerations and lies. Both narrators in Catcher in the Rye and in Tell Tale Heart show their unreliability throughout their exaggerations, lies, and their necessity of saying the truth. In Tell Tale Heart the reader does not have a lot of information about the narrator. All the reader knows is that the narrator is taking care of an old men because the old men is blind and decides to kill him because he is obsessed with one of the old men’s eye. We do not know more about the relationship between the narrator and the old man. What is given to the reader about the narrator is that he hears voices and sees things. This is the first clue showing that the narrator is unreliable. Throughout the story we will dissect the narrators unreliability.
On the other side in Catcher in the Rye, the narrator, Holden, a 16 years old teenager has a lot going through his mind. Holden first fails out of four schools, then he manifests complete apathy toward his future; he is also hospitalized, and visited by a psychoanalyst, for an unspecified complaint, and he is unable to connect with other people. With gives the reader a lot of fact given from the start showing that Holden is an unreliable narrator. The reader is also introduce to the fact that Holden has gone through a lot at his young age, the death of his brother Allie and the suicide of one of his school mates. Another facet of Holden’s personality is that he is very judgmental. Holden throughout the book criticizes almost every person he walks by. This can show the reader that Holden is trying to convince himself that he is better than others, that he is superior in a sort