The unreliable narrator of the novel, a governess charged with caring for two children who may or may not see the ghosts she sees, invites the reader to flip-flop between thinking her a lone protector against unspeakable evil and a greater threat to the children than any spirit.

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Black and Eastwood use this plot device ironically: Hoover is an exceptionally unreliable narrator, and the way Eastwood stages the actual events suggests that Hoover is pumping up his own role and stretching the truth.

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As your narrator becomes increasingly unreliable, the world around you starts to feel paper-thin, almost illusory.

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