Sentence examples for questionable narrator from inspiring English sources
The problem is that, as a forger of documents, Simonini is a questionable narrator – more so when he discovers that an intruder, disguised as a priest, is not only reading his diary but adding bits to it.
This sentiment has been borrowed by contemporary writers like Teju Cole, whose Open City follows a morally questionable narrator, and George R.R. Martin, whose books chronicle warring families who believe staunchly in the good of their own causes.
Question questionable sources.
Eva's voice carries this novel, which is as much a psychological study of her as it is of Kevin and, although her reliability as a narrator becomes increasingly questionable as she oscillates between anger, self-pity and regret, her search for answers becomes just as compulsive for the reader.
Bromwich makes astute connections to James's non-supernatural fiction of roughly the same period, much of it concerned — like "Turn of the Screw" — with shaky narrators, houses full of secrets, questionable feats of clairvoyance, etc.
In the most questionable segment, late in the movie, a dispassionate narrator describes the toll of the ordeal on Roméo and Juliette's relationship, and it feels like a shortcut that has skipped over some crucial dramatic events.
A quick, glib description of this self-consciously literary novel might go something like this: a contemporary New York variation on "The Brothers Karamazov," featuring a J. D. Salinger-like writer in the role of Father, and a protagonist who turns out to be as questionable a tour guide as the notoriously unreliable narrator of Ford Madox Ford's classic "The Good Soldier".
Although the principal characters in the book are very different from the real people in Carter's life (the narrator's respect for traffic laws is questionable; his wife is having an affair), a reader often has the feeling of being allowed privileged glimpses into the author's own stratum of "the darker nation".
The idea, in both instances, is that, like Wright's narrator, any of us could be Martin, Brown, or one of the hundreds of others who have died under questionable circumstances.
