Portrait of an Unreliable Narrator in the Narrative of I Am Probably Lost

This paper aims to study the reasons for the first-person narrator’s unreliability in Sarah Salar’s novella I’m Probably Lost based on the theory of Shlomith Rimmon- Kenan. According to her theory، a narrator’s limited knowledge، his/ her selfinvolvement in the narrative، and also his/her paradoxical value-scheme are some of the textual evidences that can be taken as the reasons for his/her unreliability in a particular narrative. Thus، the present study firstly attempts to show that the narrator’s narration in I’m Probably Lost is so incongruent with the events of the fictional world that one can hardly believe her words as standing for the fictional facts. Further، because of her personal fears and weak memory (psychological states) the narrator has got limited knowledge to report the fictional events accurately. The paper also argues that the narrator fails to report the fictional facts impartially because of her selfinvolvement along with her paradoxical value-schemes. Therefore، by restricting the narration to her own perspective or by inverting many of these facts، the narrator reports the fictional events as she wishes not as they actually might have happened. Furthermore، in its opening، the paper provides a short theoretical background to the discussion concerned with the (un) reliability of a narrator in narratology.