Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0941 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: First Person Means Unreliable
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The idea
A first-person narrator is interested, which is not the same as untrustworthy. Jane Eyre's account is not undermined by her book. Unreliability has to be demonstrated from the text, and an option asserting it without textual grounds is asserting more than the passage gives.
In practice
Interested is not untrustworthy.
Where people slip
Unreliability must be demonstrated.
Your place on the trail
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