The Outsider Point Of View

Looking at “The Outsider”, it has a narrator in a First Person Point of View, and he is often unreliable. The narrator of “The Outsider” often shows his low level of knowledge, as stated in the text by H.P. Lovecraft the narrator says “From such books I learned all I know. No teacher urged or guided me, and I do not recall hearing any human voice in all those years - not even my own; for although I had read of speech, I had never thought to try to speak aloud.” This sentence he states shows us the narrator does not have the best education. A bad education, and low amounts of experience, often result in the wrong approach to real-life situations. For example, “Scarcely had I crossed the sill when there descended upon the whole company a sudden and unheralded fear of hideous intensity, distorting every face and evoking the most horrible screams from nearly every throat.” In this situation, the narrator does not know what he looks like therefore he is unsure of what the regular humans are screaming at.
The reason behind my understanding of the narrator adding onto the suspense is just the mystery behind him. When I say the mystery behind him, I mean no one knows what he is, he doesn’t even know what he is. For example, he has never seen himself, and he has never heard a human voice within his lifetime. That creates suspense due to his lack of common knowledge. In the end, the narrator of “The Outsider” creates a good amount of suspense, and also shows unreliability due to lack of