Wednesday, May 29, 2024

“The Perfect Marriage” (post 2) by Jeneva Rose: Unreliable Narrator


It turns out that one of the characters in this novel is an unreliable narrator, which is generally considered to be a dirty trick in serious literature. But since Agatha Christie used it a century ago, in one of her most famous novels, it has had some degree of respectability.


In the context of this blog, the unreliable narrator is considered to be one clue to an author’s having multiple personality trait: Please search “lying” and “unreliable narrator” in this blog for discussions in past posts.


1. Jeneva Rose. The Perfect Marriage. Bloodhound Books, 2020. 

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