thread: 2009-06-17 : Secrets
On 2009-06-20, Vincent wrote:
I don't really have an answer. I mean, there's the obvious answer, which is that "Betty's character is paranoid" is something that everybody's agreed to except Betty, and maybe Betty will agree to it, maybe she won't, and maybe she'll never have the chance because nobody ever puts it concretely before her.
What's interesting about it to me is that it makes the whole shared fiction into an unreliable narrative. Imagine a novel with an unreliable narrator, written from the point of view of someone paranoid - it's like that, with all the players (including Betty, as she has her character react to bad information) being the author. I think that's cool.
