Quiz: What kind of Narrator are you?

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

How about a quiz?

What kind of narrator are you?

My answer: the epistolary narrator

the story is told through your diaries and letters, meaning everything has a deeply emotional and personal bent to it. you're not always the most objective narrator - and why should you be, it's your diary! - but you're usually truthful and always endearing. much of what the reader knows about the others comes from how you write to and about them, lending you a surprising amount of control over the narrative. whether or not you're entirely fair in your depictions depends on your genre... and what mood you're in that day.

Comments

[write_out]

Ooh interesting! How do you feel about yours?

I'm not too sure how to feel about my result:

the unreliable narrator

whether you're intentionally lying, or you genuinely have no idea that what you see isn't the truth, your readers cannot trust you at all - not when it comes to getting the facts, at least. as a narrator and character, you're thoroughly entertaining and complex, and will probably become the source of a few dozen thesis statements in any given semester. trying to pin down what your true motivations are, and sort out what's real and what's not are fool's errands, but that won't stop anyone.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I liked mine, that's why I posted the quiz, but I don't know about the rest of the options. They don't seem to be as interesting. Yours is an interesting psychological question, I think: am I a reliable narrator?