Although, as a play, there is technically no narrator in The Emperor Jones, the character of Brutus Jones may be considered an unreliable narrator. As the central character of the play and the only person who speaks for six of the eight scenes, Jones’s words are the only verbal information the audience can rely on to make sense and give context to what they see happen on stage. However, at the very beginning of the play in Scene 1, Jones and Smithers have a conversation which reveals Jones’s unreliability as the narrator of his own life story:
Jones [Suspiciously] : Why don’t I? [Then with an easy laugh.] You mean ’count of dat story ’bout me breakin’ from jail back dere? Dat’s all talk.
Smithers [Skeptically]: Ho, yes!
Jones [Sharply] : You ain’t ’sinuatin’ I’se a liar, is you?
Smithers [Hastily]: No, Gawd strike me! I was only thinkin’ o’ the bloody lies you told the blacks ’ere about killin’ white men in the States.
Jones [Angered] : How come dey’re lies?
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