Don Quixote, Cide Benegneteli, and the Authors

It is clear that the narrator is not familiar with the entirety of Don Quixote’s story because of his inability to recall crucial facts. Immediately, the reader is forced to question the validity of the story due to the lack of knowledge the author seems to posses. The use of an undependable narrator causes one to realize that there is no absolute truth to this story or, on a much larger scale, to any …

…will base his thoughts from his background and experience. The events that occurred at the inn, where Don Quixote got himself into a brawl over a whore, was due to misinterpretation by each character. The catastrophes that occur in Don Quixote are an examination of perspectives. The unreliable narrator reinforces this idea by not allowing the reader to rely on him as the source of truth, but for the reader to formulate his own interpretation.