Unreliable Narration

In addition to being possibly mentally unstable, Victor Frankenstein is also an unreliable narrator. While describing his travels through Britain, he first says that it was late December (page 140). Less than two pages later (142), he claims it is, in fact, the beginning of October. This almost three month discrepancy, as Shelley writes, casts the rest of Victor's story into a questionable light posing an important, albeit hypothetical, question: if he can’t get the time of year right, what other details may be have altered, intentionally or not?