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Our book club spent 3 hours debating if the narrator in 'The Silent Patient' was reliable or not...
My friend Carla kept insisting the twist was obvious from page 50, but I argued the whole point was that the narrator was lying to himself... who ended up being right?
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holly473d ago
But what if the real twist isn't about the narrator lying at all? Think about how Alicia's silence actually controls everyone around her, including the reader, and that's the point nobody talks about. The unreliable part isn't really the narrator, it's how every character fails to see that her silence is the most honest thing in the whole book.
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logansullivan2d ago
That silence as power flips the whole therapist dynamic on its head.
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