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How does Agatha Christie in her novel in a surprising fashion ?
"I thought it was a good idea and considered it for a long time…
A lots of people say that the mother of Roger Ackroyd is cheating;
but if they read it carefully. They will see that theyare wrong…
The narrative contains nothing but true, thought not the whole truth.
~Agatha Christie
Generally, a narrator's role in a detective fiction is to provide a link between the readers and
the detective and he is expected to follow certains rules like Watson in the tales of Holmes.
But by revealing Dr. Sheppard as the murderer Christie be victory trust that readers on the
convention of the detective story. There is a deep sense in this contentment as the ending of
the novel divites from the traditional detective Geon Ro. The narrator Dr. Sheppard all
through the novel but the thing turns out to be the murderer of Roger and thereby arouses
suspension in the mind of the readers reading the authenticity of his narration.
By allowing the readers to accept Dr. Sheppard as a 'Watson' figure. The readers neglect the
rules of being ready to suspect everyone. Christie astonishingly makes the narrator the culprit
in the novel. It distervanses because the narrator is proved to be the source of evil. Evil is not
limited to the circle of suspect, but may reside in even the most apparently trustworthy
character. Here Christie uses the name Sheppard with pastoral ecos and the choice of
profession for him under the middle class assumption about the men of this profession.
Doctors in our societies are trusted to take after the weak and inform our families. Sheppard
uses his expertise to blackmail a desperate women and then be trays disposition in the
Ackroyd house hold as doctor and friend to commit the murderer. Murderer is compounded
by betrayal and his ratherless use of friendship and trust with both Ackroyd and Rolph is to
unsafely for the genteel convention of the detective novel.
By the end of the book facade of respectively and integrity is damaged Dr. Sheppard, the man
who has been quite evidently shown as the most trusted friend of Roger Ackroyd, commits
the murder.
In the closing appology of Sheppard manuscript says as an assured tone:
"I can trust him (pyrot) he is an inspection reglong with manage it between them."
The presentation of Dr. Sheppard as port of the gentle society at the end of the novel.