... , in that the narrator is simply ignorant to what we have already pieced together-yet as it draws on for fifteen whole pages, we question whether we truly do know more than our narrator. After all, the narrator has thus far acted as our guide throughout the novel, at times blatantly explicating the meaning of symbols for us-we have built up trust in his ... opinions, although moments of revoked explanation has left us wanting. That his commentary itself should be unreliable subverts all assumed notions of the role of a narrator ... , and casts doubt upon all previous assertions. In this ...

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