8) Do you trust the speaker? Do you think he gives us an accurate version of reality, or is it possible that he is making up or distorting some of these things? Why? Again, use at least two details from the poem to support your response, and again, be sure to use quotations marks if these are specific examples taken directly from the text.
This is only a short answer space. All of Poe's speakers are rather unreliable. The narrator in the Raven seems somewhat together. The unnamed narrator appears in a typically Gothic setting with a lonely apartment, a dying fire, and a "bleak December" night while wearily studying his books in an attempt to distract himself from his troubles. He thinks occasionally of Lenore but is generally able to control his emotions, although the effort required to do so tires him and makes his words equally slow and outwardly pacified.
