You can't help but color their story a little too. To digress from Munro, the apostle Luke was a doctor, so doesn't it make sense that his Gospel would focus more on both Jesus as a healer and the degree of physical punishment he received? Likewise, narrators themselves benefit from our limited perspective, whether it's Holden Caulfield's immaturity or the contradictory explanations of Rashomon's four characters. Munro does not commit any literary errors by exploiting subjectivity, but rather illustrates it and its effects without condemning or praising it. We create versions of reality and people based on limited perceptions of them, the narrator or author is no longer guilty of any of them