do told him that she was “one-sided”. (108) Sister takes this to mean that she is “bigger on one side than the other”. (108) What Stella-Rondo is saying is that Sister only has one way of thinking, she can only see her side of an issue. We know that Sister is not looking at all sides of the situations around her, thus making her an unreliable narrator. After Stella-Rondo returns home Sister states “there I [Sister] was over the hot stove,” (108) trying to cook dinner for her family, when Stella-Rondo inconvenienced her by bringing her child to dinner without prior notice. For Sister to be a reliable narrator she needs to present everyone’s perspective equally. Sister does not grow or change during the story. Her thinking remains the same from the beginning of the story throughout the ending of the story. She starts out feeling that “everything was fine until.....Stella-Rondo …came home…” (108) , now she resents Stella-Rondo for coming back.Sister has finally decided to leave. She has made up in her mind that her family is turned “against” her and they are all on Stella-Rondo’s “side”. So she decides to move into the Post Office. She takes the “electric oscillating fan”, and the “pillow [she’d] done needle point on” (114) she even takes things such as “the sewing-machine motor [she] helped…to give Mama for Christmas” the “thermometer,” the “Hawaiian Ukulele,” (115) and various other articles of “hers”. This shows that Sister does not really want to leave the house, she is trying to take a little piece of the home with her. After Sister moved into the P.O. she longed for her family to come see her. She states she wants the “world to know [she’s happy]” (117). It seems Sister is trying to convince herself that she’s happy, ...
