![]() They see only their immediate, in the moment desires. I want to take a road trip, in a convertible, with the top down (27).īoth Megan and Rachel are unreliable because their perception of the world is clearly biased. I hate this, hate insomnia more than anything, just lying there, brain going round, tick, tick, tick, tick. Because Megan is a cheater and struggles with her mental health, readers can’t quite trust her side of the story. While Megan does show remorse for these events, when a person lies about one aspect of their life, people find it difficult to believe anything else the person says. As Megan’s character develops, readers realize she has a trauma in her past making her unstable and she is unfaithful. Megan, the next narrator to speak in Hawkins’ novel, is unreliable for different reasons. Readers may find it more difficult to guess who committed the crime when the person discovering and interpreting the clues can’t be trusted either. Having an unreliable main character like Rachel can heighten the mystery of a novel. She calls him throughout the book, usually when drunk. In addition, Rachel is obsessed with her ex-husband. ![]() ![]() All of these cause Rachel to be untrustworthy and therefore unreliable. ![]() ![]() Her substance abuse problem leads her to be unable to remember a key night, negatively affects her relationships, and makes her appear weak-willed. ![]()
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