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The assumption that a first person narrator is always unreliable is a misconception and incorrect. A 1st person narrative is no more, potentially, unreliable than any other kind of narrative technique (3rd person… etc.). It is only unreliable in the same way that everything is unreliable and no two people have exactly the same perspective of events. Therefore, what the ultimate facts are is impossible to say (unless you are God). So all we can expect to learn is their perception on things, which will reliably be what they tell us. There experience may not match the facts of the matter, but you still learn very reliably, what their perception is. Within novels, first person narratives are usually considered an unreliable outlook upon the events because they portray a biased outlook upon the events. This bias stems from the fact that the narrative is written from one particular character’s perspective and can describe and portray the events only from what this character sees, hears and perceives, which may perhaps be inaccurate. However, the first person narrative of ‘Enduring Love’ cannot be stereotyped in this way. The narrator, ‘Joe’, a character seemingly preoccupied with science, accuracy and the method of story