Question

8.
REREAD Reread lines 118-133. What impression do you form of
the narrator's mental state? In what ways does his unreliability
increase suspense? Cite explicit textual evidence in your answer.

Answer 1

When reading the text, the reader has the impression that the narrator's mental state is chaotic, confused, and verging on insanity. This increases the suspense because the reader does not know if the narrated facts are real, or are a result of the narrator's mental state.

We can arrive at this answer because:

• The narrator himself asserts that the mental state he is in is not positive.
• He claims he is confused, feels chaotic, and thinks he is going insane.
• The narrator himself states that this insanity does not allow him to know if everything he is seeing is real, fanciful, or symptoms of madness.
• The narrator himself says that what he is describing is unreliable and this increases the suspense in the story because the reader is pulled into this madness, where he does not have a prediction of what is happening and does not even know what is real.

It is important to note that this question is about the short story "The Outsider" written by Lovecraft, where we are introduced by a man who feels tormented in the castle where he lives.

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