Charlie Gordon Is A Fibber: Phillip Malloy
Phillip Malloy is a fibber. Charlie Gordon is mentally disabled. Phillip Malloy deliberately lies and is untrustworthy with his actions and statements. Charlie Gordon is mentally disabled and sees the world as a happy and innocent place. Phillip Malloy is an undependable teenager who only says what benefits him. It’s a real debate on who is the unreliable narrator.
Phillip Malloy sees the world like any other teenage boy would see it. Phillip questions the world around him. He knows how to analyze how people talk to him and interpret it in a different way when telling his perspective. Everyone has a different perspective of life and that’s ok. But it is different when you tell lies to make your perspective sound enhanced.
Charlie Gordon isn’t
like everyone else. His mind thinks differently, as in he takes everything literally. During the book, he never said a lie, he just didn’t understand. Yes, Charlie Gordon does see the world as a much happier place but, that doesn’t necessarily mean that he lies. This leads to the facts that Phillip Malloy is the unreliable narrator.
Phillip Malloy is clearly the unreliable narrator because he lies consistently. He says the truth only when it benefits himself. And if there is a truth he doesn’t favor, he switches it up and makes it is own different perspective. In conclusion, they both in some ways can be unreliable narrator. Cleary though Phillip is the most unreliable character out of two of them. Charlie portrays a trustworthy character who always tells the truth and is reliable to do so. Just not reliable to understand. As Phillip Malloy is an untrustworthy teenager who got himself in a lot of drama because of lying. Therefore, Phillip Malloy is the most unreliable narrator.
Phillip Malloy sees the world like any other teenage boy would see it. Phillip questions the world around him. He knows how to analyze how people talk to him and interpret it in a different way when telling his perspective. Everyone has a different perspective of life and that’s ok. But it is different when you tell lies to make your perspective sound enhanced.
Charlie Gordon isn’t
like everyone else. His mind thinks differently, as in he takes everything literally. During the book, he never said a lie, he just didn’t understand. Yes, Charlie Gordon does see the world as a much happier place but, that doesn’t necessarily mean that he lies. This leads to the facts that Phillip Malloy is the unreliable narrator.
Phillip Malloy is clearly the unreliable narrator because he lies consistently. He says the truth only when it benefits himself. And if there is a truth he doesn’t favor, he switches it up and makes it is own different perspective. In conclusion, they both in some ways can be unreliable narrator. Cleary though Phillip is the most unreliable character out of two of them. Charlie portrays a trustworthy character who always tells the truth and is reliable to do so. Just not reliable to understand. As Phillip Malloy is an untrustworthy teenager who got himself in a lot of drama because of lying. Therefore, Phillip Malloy is the most unreliable narrator.