When a child is born, he does not see the same things as an adult. The baby does not understand language and cannot distinguish between races, gender, good and evil. While it is impossible to go back in time, novels allow readers to adopt a new perspective for a few hours or a few days. They give a new perspective to the world and sometimes provide a filter to things seen in the world. Unreliable narrators give authors the opportunity to lie and withhold information from readers, providing new perspectives on the narrator as well as other characters in the novel. Authors use unreliable narrators not to give the reader more information, but to withhold information in order to further character development. William Faulkner uses multiple narrators throughout The Sound and the Fury to describe Caddy Compson's life without telling the story from her point of view. of view. Benjy, a mentally disabled 33-year-old, Quentin, a troubled and suicidal Harvard student, and Jason, a racist and greedy man, each give their radically different versions of Caddy's story to create an incomplete chronicle of her life. Faulkner's first chapter explores Caddy's life through the silent narrator Benjy. Due to Benjy's inability to speak, much of how he describes the world relies on his heightened sensory awareness. Benjy constantly repeats this fact, which, to Benjy, symbolizes Caddy's innocence (Faulkner 6). Later in the novel, Benjy realizes that Caddy has lost the innocence that Benjy once idolized and loved (Faulkner 40). Quentin's description of Caddy's loss of innocence is one in which he blames himself. The suicidal Harvard student blames himself for Caddy's pregnancy and hasty marriage. Quentin repeats...... middle of paper...... with his peers. It’s only when they’re in desperate need of supplies that Katniss realizes” (Collins 297). Through Katniss's unreliability, the reader is able to become more aware of her as she makes them about herself. Unreliable narrators provide insight into how they see the world by limiting the reader to a single point of view. By providing the reader with a new pair of eyes, the author can provide insight into the narrator's mind and how he perceives the world. Whether it's William Faulkner giving all sides of the story except the main character's, JD Salinger giving insight into the narrator through his critiques of others, or Suzanne Collins asking it is up to the reader to become aware of the narrator while doing so about herself. authors use unreliable narrators to explore new depths in character understanding and growth.