The story consists of a woman describing her stay out in the country. However, throughout the story, her feelings change about the house multiple times from feeling refreshed back to being trapped. The narrator describes people walking out in the gardens, but then also describes how isolated the manor is later on in the story. There are details that are described once and never brought up again. The entire story line is inconsistent, and that is caused by the narration. The ending of the story truly solidifies the label of an unreliable narrator, since there is a switching of souls, perhaps, or an alter ego taking over that came from inside the …show more content…
The narrator is responsible for giving the reader information about the story going on around them, but when their own thoughts, and sometimes hallucinations, are added the story then becomes a bit more complicated. Reality is difficult for the narrator to distinguish, which highlights the struggles of mental health and the confusion the person must feel. In these stories, it could be argued that the narration is actually reliable, but from a different perspective of knowing the thoughts of the