Narration Style in Loving

There are so many things I still want to discuss from Loving. From class today, I thought I would continue on in the discussion of the narrator. On page 183, I really see the omniscience of the narrator when the text says "My darling my darling my darling, her daughter-in-law prayed in her heart to the Captain, never ever again."

In this moment, readers see that the narrator has access to Violet's innermost thoughts, creating implications for the entire novel. We as readers don't know who the narrator is, but he or she withholds information for readers throughout the entire novel. What's more, the narrator casts a certain shadow of doubt onto the text in some places (discussed in class).

Why would a narrator do this? I feel as if the realization that the narrator withholds information from the reader makes us feel immediately that the narrator is no longer trustworthy. The narrator obviously has access to all knowledge in the novel but frames the story in a certain way. I think that the beginning and ending lines, creating a fairytale-esque feel to the story, are tools used by the narrator to hint that we cannot trust the story as it's told and to encourage us to draw our own conclusions.