unreliable narrators

[alice wellintown]

>I would argue that those deviations are not as few and discreet as McHale
> says, and they can certainly also be found in later chapters. You'll
> not find me arguing that there is no uncertainty in Lot 49. Uncertainty
> and ambiguity are if anything the dominant moods of the novel, as for
> instance Thomas Schaub has argued.

Mood is very difficult to define and, as I said in a previous post,
analysis necessitates our taking things apart that only fucntion when
kept together, but I agree that ambiguity, uncertainty, and
indeterminacy, all essential elements of American Romance, are present
in both works. Mood, is dependent the setting (time and place) of both
works. Both are set in California, but IV is a much darker and
sinister California as Robin and others have noted.