It is not only a matter of telling the story, it also interferes in the discourse of the action and propels the events in a different direction. Her being unreliable adds much to the novel and affects the fates of her sister Cecelia and the latter's lover, Robbie. In 'Atonement', his character Briony, who is still a child, narrates parts of the novel but her narration is questioned, for she might not be truthful or honest.
McEwan's employment of this technique is an issue needing further analysis. Booth's 'The Rhetoric of Fiction' in 1961. The unreliable narrator, a technique he employs, is an innovation first seen in the modern era in Wayne C. We find him dealing with history, wars and social themes, all knitted together in a manoeuvring way. Ian McEwan is one of the modernist writers who utilises new and uncommon ways of narrating. How significant is the technique in terms of recounting the events in a piece of fiction? This paper illustrates the significance of the aforementioned technique, which adds new understanding to the reading of McEwan’s ‘Atonement’. The present paper attempts to read ‘Atonement’ from a new perspective and show what is meant by an unreliable narrator and how this technique is employed. As a result, it seems dubious to give the role of talking to a character (Briony) to narrate and cope with events, and so her telling is questioned to a certain extent because the events she narrates are deceitful on the one hand, while on the other, she is too young and hard to be trusted. Her being unreliable adds much to the novel and affects the fates of her sister Cecelia and the latter’s lover, Robbie. In ‘Atonement’, his character Briony, who is still a child, narrates parts of the novel but her narration is questioned, for she might not be truthful or honest. McEwan’s employment of this technique is an issue needing further analysis. Booth’s ‘The Rhetoric of Fiction’ in 1961.
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