Read the excerpt from "The Lady Maid's Bell." But that wasn’t the only queer thing in the house. The very next day I found out that Mrs. Brympton had no nurse; and then I asked Agnes about the woman I had seen in the passage the afternoon before. Agnes said she had seen no one, and I saw that she thought I was dreaming. To be sure, it was dusk when we went down the passage, and she had excused herself for not bringing a light; but I had seen the woman plain enough to know her again if we should meet. I decided that she must have been a friend of the cook’s, or of one of the other women servants: perhaps she had come down from town for a night’s visit, and the servants wanted it kept secret. Some ladies are very stiff about having their servants’ friends in the house overnight. At any rate, I made up my mind to ask no more questions. How does this excerpt support the idea that the story is told by an unreliable narrator? The narrator does not trust what she has seen. The narrator does not trust what Agnes tells her. The narrator wants to meet the servants’ visiting friends. The narrator wants to know who Mrs. Brympton’s nurse is.

"The Lady Maid's Bell" is a short story narrated from a first-person perspective. As we know, first-person narrators are often unreliable. Their narrative is influenced by their own opinions and feelings, which makes them biased. They are also usually limited, since we only get to know what the narrator knows, which can be untrue or wrongly represented.

This particular excerpt shows how the narrator trusts her own vision of a woman, but does not trust what someone else tells her. She does not even consider that it could have been her imagination playing tricks - after all, it was late and dark. She would rather believe in herself and suspect others.

jayilych4real jayilych4real · Answer 2 · 2021-11-26T10:52:39+01:00

The excerpt supports the idea that the story is told by an unreliable narrator because:

B. The narrator does not trust what Agnes tells her.

According to the given question, we are asked to show the way the excerpt support the idea that the story is told by an unreliable narrator and how it affects the story.

As a result of this, we can see from the given excerpt that the narrator does not make use of accurate details and he does not trust what Agnes tells him because he is influenced by his feelings.

Therefore, the correct answer is option B