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Reliability of Narrator

e truth, because each event could be alteredslightly by one of the other characters. “Defender of the Faith,” by Philip Roth, is a story in which the narrator becomesinvolved with the main protagonist of the story. This story is a good example of reliablenarration, in that, Sergeant Marx goes through a life altering experience. Through hislearning, he shows the reader that each event could have taken place. Marx has notacknowledged his religious differences until the first conversation with SheldonGrossbart. “You can stay and scrub floors or you can go to shul,” this is the firstrecognition of Marx’s religion (Arp 118). Given that Sergeant Marx is Jewish, we areable to pick out what is true about the religion and what is false. Marx points out morethan one situation where he is manipulated for the benefit of Private Sheldon Grossbart. In doing this, he is letting the reader into his personal experience, regardless of whatcriticism he may receive. “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker, was an extraordinary use of first personnarration. At first, I had no idea where this story was going to take the reader. Thenarrator was passionate of her convictions about her eldest daughter. The narrator feltmore bonded with the younger daughter, because she was willing to stay behind in theunchanging environment. The narrator showed disappointment when the eldest daughter,Dee, came for a visit. Dee wanted was to take the valuable belongings away from hermother and sister, because they wouldn’t be properly used. It is best expressed in thisquote from the story, “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts! she said. “She’d probably bebackward enough to put them to everyday use” (Arp 96). The narrators reliability isshown throughout the story by relating her situation to a broad group. Most of us haveexperienced similar events, making it easy to trust the narrator. The r...

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