Saki’s “The Open Window” destabilizes narrative reliability by:
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Employing metanarrative commentary that exposes authorial control.
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Using an unreliable narrator who constructs a deceptive reality reflecting Edwardian anxieties about truth and illusion.
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Structuring a non-linear timeline to fragment reader expectations.
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Prioritizing stream-of-consciousness to immerse the reader in subjectivity.