The Narrator's Credibility

The narrator’s credibility is very slim. The narrator makes false ideas and events, which would make an unreliable narrator. The narrator isn’t very clear on his surroundings. He doesn’t give us details like his age, when he was born or about his family. In the text of The Outsider it states “I cannot recall any person except myself; or anything alive but the noiseless rats and bats and spiders.” When the narrator talks he is not giving us the full view of his ideas. It’s hard to understand where he is and what he is doing. Because the narrator has been living in a dark mansion he doesn’t know what he looks like or what his age is. According to the author, “I looked in and saw an oddly dressed company indeed; making merry, and speaking brightly