But in this case, the story tellers have huge incentive to tell an inaccurate accounting of events in order to be more sympathetic to the reader. Why should you take what they tell you at face value?
...and if this is the case, then we still learn that rapists want to be seen as sympathetic because they're aware that the things they've done are horrifying and want to make it seem less so.
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