I think anytime the mom is the narrator, she'll be unreliable.. Moms are always bias.
From the mom's point of view Maggie is seen as the good daughter.. she is following in the footsteps of the women in the family. But Dee.. or Wangero.. has gone crazy. She's completely lost touch in what the family is about.
But from an outsider's view, Maggie and the mom probably look ignorant.. maybe. I think their lifestyle is perfectly fine- it's whatever they want to do. They are African Americans.. not Africans. Wangero wants to be African.. she has lost her roots in her American family, but has found them in her African family.
Her mom doesn't get it, so Dee/Wangero comes across as stuck-up.. and annoying.
The speaker in this story is unreliable.
I don't really understand what being reliable means.. It's her story, so it would make sense that her opinion would dominate. It's not like this was written for a court case.. It is a work of fiction, so why does it matter if the narrator has a bias viewpoint?
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