Brother Lesson Plan

Consider the following passage at the opening of Chapter Two:

“For the past ten years, I’ve been careful with Mother. I’ve kept to a minimum all discomforting talk about the past. I’ve given away things belonging to Francis that might remind and disturb. His concert shirts and sneakers. His Blue Jays cap with its faint dried stain of sweat upon the brim.

I got rid of these items not to deny my mother the chance to remember her son but to allow us both the time and space to reckon with loss.” (33)

How does this help to establish Michael as an unreliable narrator?

Michael says he got rid of Francis’ things to help himself and his mother with their loss. He believes...