{"id":1418323,"date":"2022-01-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1418323"},"modified":"2022-01-13T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T16:30:11","slug":"the-6-most-unreliable-narrators-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-6-most-unreliable-narrators-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Narrators Who Were Lying to You the Entire Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/7819unreliablenarratorsMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When you&#8217;re reading a book, you like to think you can trust the person who&#8217;s telling the story, but the reality is sometimes you can&#8217;t. Sometimes what you get instead is a garbled series of omissions, half-truths, and straight-up lies. It&#8217;s like being friends with a compulsive liar\u2014they like to jazz up their anecdotes with impossible details, and it&#8217;s up to you to figure out what&#8217;s real. Wow! You were on your way to school when WHAT happened? A helicopter? Right in front of you? And Tom Hanks was doing cartwheels the entire time? Very cool. Sounds super plausible. Thanks for sharing, Connor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much like Lying Connor, sometimes an unreliable narrator will mislead you on purpose. Other times, they&#8217;re spiraling downward into madness. The following narrators are a little bit of each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re reading a book, you like to think you can trust the person who&#8217;s telling the story, but the reality is sometimes you can&#8217;t. Sometimes what you get instead is a garbled series of   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,2335,714,25017,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418323"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443212,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418323\/revisions\/1443212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}