Unreliable narrators are startling because generally readers expect the storyteller to be?

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Corbin Garner

18 December, 11:22

Unreliable narrators are startling because generally readers expect the storyteller to be?

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Fowler · Answer 1

The readers expect the storyteller to tell the whole story truthfully giving all the necessary details to come to reasonable conclusions.

Nicholson · Answer 2

Readers typically expect the narrator to be stable, certain and honest. For example, if a narrator admits that they lied previously and told the reader that the reader would not be able to take them seriously for the rest of the story.