The dramatic monologue form makes the reader complicit in the confession

Evidence

The Reluctant Fundamentalist fulfills this requirement by posing a number of such interpretative challenges to the reader, not least in the fact that the entire text is a monologue by a narrator whose reliability, as time goes on, appears highly questionable. This formal choice of the dramatic monologue, along with Changez’s selective editing, contributes to the deliberate evasiveness of what Changez calls at one point “the confession that implicates its audience” (70). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 446

Categorization

• XREF: This formal analysis of the implicating confession is the sharpest tool for the reader’s close reading of both Hamid and Naqvi’s narrators.