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What kind of narrator causes the reader to suspect a lack of credibility or trustworthiness?

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An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose credibility is compromised. They can be found in fiction and film, and range from children to mature characters. The term was coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction.
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