Who is a reliable narrator and who is a not reliable narrator? A reliable narrator is one who simply reports the action without offering an opinion. He or She tells a story or describes any event that happened according to his or her point view without his or her personal opinion. A reliable narrator should demonstrate a breadth of knowledge of the event or the situation and the characters. An unreliable narrator is a character who is telling the story and he or she is not completely accurate or credible due to problems with their mental state. An unreliable narrator is usually the first person narrator, who gives the audience the opportunity to make their own interpretations about the story. The story is “Car Crash While Hitchhiking”, one…show more content… When the narrator meets with the family from Marshalltown, he seems unstable because he was standing in the rain with his sleeping bag and high on drugs. The antidotes made him think that he could see future events because the narrator states that “I’d known all along exactly what was going to happen. But the man and his wife woke me up later, denying it viciously.” (6) The narrator claims to have known in advance that they were going to be in a car wreck soon or later. After the accident, the narrator had a chance to save both victims from the car wreck, but he decides to save only the baby not the man because he could not fully understand the difference between appearance and reality, so he left the man dying on the scene, with blood escaping his mouth with each breath. When the narrator was looking at the man, he said that “He wouldn’t be taking many more [breaths], and, therefore, I looked down with great pity of a person’s life on earth. I don’t mean that we end up dead, that’s not the pity. I mean he couldn’t tell me whether he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.” (10) At this point the narrator faces the
