The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The Turn of the Screw: Unreliable Narrator 1 key example

Chapter 24
Explanation and Analysis—The Governess:

Despite Douglas's use of ethos to assure his listeners that the governess is reasonable and dependable, the manuscript he reads ultimately reveals her to be an unreliable narrator—or, at the very least, a narrator whose perception is called into question.