Oh I see what you mean. Right now I am thinking that my sympathy towards Hannah was more of my choice than I realized, because in almost all the scenarios that you mentioned I half-knowingly took interpretations very favorable to Hannah. For example, when she was in the room while Jessica was being raped, I focused more on how the fear of violence forces people to inaction, rather than the failure to break through the fear; they both are conscious decisions. I thought the unreliable narrator (Hannah herself) was placed there to sway us in moments like that, which was done quite convincingly in my mind. Despite that, choosing to analyze the story above the narrator is a very fair choice and it seems like many people did that, because Hannah is indeed at least partially responsible.

That being said, I am curious whether people felt that a story other than Hannah’s was worth being told.