The Great Gatsby and Enduring Love are both set texts in the AQA B AS paper Aspects of Narrative
Whenever anyone gives us an account of events or tells us about something that has happened to them, our starting position is generally that of inclining to believe them. If, however, there is something about their account that does not, for whatever reason, ring true, we start to doubt all that we are being told. Anything could sound that warning bell — omission, evasiveness, a factual inaccuracy, a contradiction, a sense that the account is distorted by the speaker’s bias or prejudice or their lack of understanding. What develops is a sense of ‘distance’ between what the speaker says and what we, the listeners, think might be true.
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