In “The Story of an hour” by Kate Chopin I think that there is a reliable narrator. I believe this because in this story, the narrator is not a character. The narrator is talking in the third person’s point of view. This is the kind of narrator that knows everything about every character and gives you many details as to who the characters are, what they are feeling, what they are going through, etc. The narrator began the story by telling us a bit about Mrs. Mallard. The narrator told us “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible her husbands death. ” In that one sentence, the narrator told us a lot about the story. The ending of the story was also given away a bit because of something that the narrator had said. The narrator said “It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence o0f the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallards name leading the list of “killed”.” I thought that it was weird that the narrator put killed in quotation marks. Overall I thought that the narrator was a reliable narrator because they told the audience all the details and everything they said led up to something else.

The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is different from “The Story of an Hour” because I didn’t feel like the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” was a reliable narrator. I feel like she wasn’t a reliable narrator because I believe that she was mentally ill. Her husband John is a physician who told her several times that she was not ill, but she still believes that she is. In the story the narrator says, “You see he does not believe I am sick!” I also think that she is a little bit sarcastic. She says, “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency- what is one to do?” I found that a bit sarcastic because she is telling us that her husband says that she is not sick, but she has all of these things wrong with her anyway. Overall, I do not believe that she is a reliable narrator because she only agrees with her own point of view.

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