How can a reader tell that the passage's narrator is TRUE!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had
been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The
disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not
dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I
heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard
many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and
observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the
whole story.
Abe
unreliable2
O The narrator claims that he is very intelligent, but he
O The narrator insists that he can speak calmly, but
is clearly very young and naive.
his manner of speaking suggests that he is not at all
calm.
-"The Tell-Tale Heat,"
Edgar Allan Poe
The narrator says that he is a good listener, but he
refuses to listen to anyone else's version of the
story,
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