The Outsiders
the outsider
what lines show the narrator is unreliable
what lines show the narrator is unreliable
This is difficult. Despite Ponyboy coming of age with teen angst, he is actually pretty reliable as a narrator. He is not prone to exaggeration or lying. Even when Ponyboy is upset about Darry treating him like a kid, the reader understands Ponyboy's limitations as a child narrator. We know he processes things as a teen. This doesn't make him an unreliable narrator.