unreliable narrators

[Carvill, John]

<< Cherrycoke narrates sections of M&D.
He is one of the narrators.
He is unreliable.
Why is this so difficult to understand? >>

This is what you and Robin have in common: an insulting tendency to ascribe others' failure to *share* your views to others' *inability to grasp* your views.

This list is meant to be a forum for discussion, not a place for people to pound their dogma like nails into other people's foreheads.

I'm open to all discussions of 'unreliable narrators', but my *initial reaction* to the idea that Doc is one is to say, I don't think he is one. As John & Tore already discussed, many of Pynchon's books are 'narrated' in such a complex and amorphous manner as to make identification of a narrator difficult, and if it's hard to identify who the narrator is, does that not make it even more difficult to categorize that 'narrator' as 'unreliable'? Just announcing 'Cherrycoke is an unreliable narrator' is, at best, reductive.