@BlueBay congratulations... you played yourself. WHEN. DID. I. SAY. SHE. WAS. STUPID!!! I said she was ignorant which is defined as "someone who lacks knowledge in general or knowledge of a topic" (aka fl), compared to the definition of stupid which is, "the lack of an ordinary level of intelligence (I am hoping you know what the difference between intelligence and knowledge)". Therefore, like I said, if a person does not know $h!t they are ignorant not stupid, ignorant...okay. Which means if the narrator is ignorant and supposed to be telling us what is happening but can't they are now unreliable... okay.
Spoiler!
Also there is no such thing as willingly ignorant, there is only willfully ignorant which just means you have the knowledge but just REFUSE to acknowledge it, that's just an @$$h0le. But back to my point, thank you for proving my point for me with your spoiler; she was kept in the dark, not allowed to know the whole truth, wouldn't you say that is the definition of ignorance and therefore she can't be a reliable source🤔.
@BlushinBlaqBunny Mmmm, *no*, I didn't. Fine, you called her IGNORANT, which (while the two DO often have different nuances) is not much better than calling her stupid. If you wanna play semantics though, that's fine, you called her IGNORANT.
My point still stands though: it's ridiculous to hold her fully responsible as an unreliable narrator when she was deliberately kept from a lot of information regarding Ethans execution of her father. She's not some perfect heroine, as certain perspectives ARE distorted (like the ones concerning her father), but others are not (like the ones concerning Ethan). He didn't kill her dad for no reason (obviously), but he was vague and lacked the communication necessary to prevent this from spiraling. Some important events she's saying are true either aren't, or just didn't happen in the way she remembered it, however some important events did. Most people, who've read the original/spoilers, including myself, agree that she's not some fully objective force and that there ARE things she got wrong, but we also understand that there's nuance to it. Her narration is fractured (by both her own actions and by Ethan's), but it's not totally unrealiable.
At its bare bones, an unreliable narrator is someone who's rendition of events is to be taken with a minute or no accuracy, and that isn't the entire case here. It's like The Great Gatsby vs One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or some of H.P. Lovecraft's stories (like the one with the German captain. It's been awhile since I've read it so I can't remember the name)
