Journal Entry 70: Narrator :)

In the story The Tell-Tale Heart I think that we can not trust the narrator. Because one of the examples is that the narrator is saying that he is not mad in the beginning of the story although he really is mad. You can tell that he is mad because he says "But why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my sense--not destroyed--not dulled them." and he also said "I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?". We rely on narrators to tell us what is going on in the story but some narrators are not reliable just like the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart. Well I think readers can not really rely on narrators when the story is in first person (that is what I think) because then the narrator will have suggestion like there own idea then the reader sometimes think that the narrator might be wrong or the readers do not agree with the narrator. I think that narrators create unreliable narrators because they try to make the readers to be suspicious of the author or maybe just to make it more interesting and fun for the readers to read.