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This 3 page paper discusses the narrators in “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton and “The Secret Sharer” by Joseph Conrad and argues that they are both unreliable. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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join the crew of the Beagle on its voyages; or accompany the Fellowship of the Ring through the Mines of Moria. Someone has to tell us whats going on. And
the way the person tells the story-the words he or she chooses, the ideas they choose to present or ignore, the descriptions they use-all shape the way we feel about
the characters were reading about. Its especially trick for readers when the narrator is unreliable, something Edgar Allan Poe did a lot. This paper compares and contrasts the narrators of
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and argues that both narrators are unreliable, although in different ways and for different reasons. Discussion The young
man who narrates Ethan Frome is never named, an indication that his actual presence in the story and his impact on it is slighter than it might be. He is
in Starkfield, Massachusetts, purely by accident when he sees Ethan Frome. The man is badly crippled and others talk about the terrible "smash up" he was in, and this sets
the narrator to asking questions. However, as is often the case, he cant get a straight answer; he says he "had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and,
as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story" (Wharton). Its his curiosity that finally drives him to try and find out what really happened. The
first chapter, the Introduction, is written in first person and the narrator says things like "I saw him for the first time" or "I gathered from the same informant" (Wharton).
This chapter ends with Frome taking the narrator to his home because the weather is so bad they cannot continue (Wharton). But then the first chapter suddenly switches to third
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