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Originally Posted by ValarMorghulis
I don't see how one wiki quote from the middle of an article can prove anyone wrong (is wikipedia the modern word of God?).
You mean this one: "A narrator whose perception is immature or limited through his or her point of view." So anyone whose "perception is limited through his or her point of view" (read everyone) is now an unreliable narrator.
They should go back to having books written by God rather than by these pesky humans with limited perception.
All of the game of thrones characters are unreliable narrators. Your example of Bran is actually a good example - we have to filter all of the information we glean from Bran's POV into what we know a 7 year old thinks like. If we were going by based solely on what Bran saw, then Jamie and Cersei were just "fighting" however, we know it's more than that because we understand what sex is.
They're unreliable because they all act without perfect information, Bran's was just that he did not understand what sex is. So, while it may be their own perception of what is going on, that does not necessarily make it what is actually happening. Does this make sense?
It's not as noticeable with, say... Tyrion, because he's astute and often right in his presumptions (and these are proven through other character's POVs too) but that does not make him "reliable" it makes him smarter than certain other characters.
For instance (and this is extremely far-fetched), if Tyrion happened to be color blind and there was a character in the book with what he perceives as grey hair that only he interacts with, but the character's hair is actually flaming red. Say this character's hair color is a defining characteristic of a lineage that people believe to be extinct. It would be unreliable narration ultimately, because the character's hair is not actually the color Tryion perceives it to be.
It's a pretty damn clever method of telling this entire series because it makes a lot of things ambiguous that might not have been that way with another form of narration. It's what allows some people to assume many different theories because what we see isn't necessarily what is actually happening.
http://academic.reed.edu/english/cou.../narrator.html