Unreliable Narrator

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

Bleak House: Unreliable Narrator 1 key example

Chapter 3
Explanation and Analysis—Esther's Noticing Way:

Dickens appeals to the reader's sense of pathos through Esther's innocent and childlike diction. For example, when the reader first "meets" her in Chapter 3, she explains that

 I had always rather a noticing way – not a quick way, O no! – a silent way of noticing what passed before me, and thinking I should like to understand it better. I have not by any means a quick understanding. When I love a person very tenderly indeed, it seems to brighten. But even that may be my vanity.