<Dl> <Dt> The Pícaro </Dt> <Dd> a narrator who is characterized by exaggeration and bragging, the first example probably being the soldier in Plautus's comedy Miles Gloriosus . Examples in modern literature are Moll Flanders, Simplicius Simplicissimus or Felix Krull . </Dd> <Dt> The Madman </Dt> <Dd> a narrator who is either only experiencing mental defense mechanisms, such as (post-traumatic) dissociation and self - alienation, or severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia or paranoia . Examples include Franz Kafka's self - alienating narrators, Noir fiction and Hardboiled fiction's "tough" (cynical) narrator who unreliably describes his own emotions, Barbara Covett in Notes on a Scandal, and Patrick Bateman in American Psycho . </Dd> <Dt> The Clown </Dt> <Dd> a narrator who does not take narrations seriously and consciously plays with conventions, truth, and the reader's expectations . Examples of the type include Tristram Shandy and Bras Cubas . </Dd> <Dt> The Naïf </Dt> <Dd> a narrator whose perception is immature or limited through their point of view . Examples of naïves include Huckleberry Finn, Holden Caulfield and Forrest Gump . </Dd> <Dt> The Liar </Dt> <Dd> a mature narrator of sound cognition who deliberately misrepresents themselves, often to obscure their unseemly or discreditable past conduct . John Dowell in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier exemplifies this kind of narrator . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> a narrator who is characterized by exaggeration and bragging, the first example probably being the soldier in Plautus's comedy Miles Gloriosus . Examples in modern literature are Moll Flanders, Simplicius Simplicissimus or Felix Krull . </Dd> <Dd> a narrator who is either only experiencing mental defense mechanisms, such as (post-traumatic) dissociation and self - alienation, or severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia or paranoia . Examples include Franz Kafka's self - alienating narrators, Noir fiction and Hardboiled fiction's "tough" (cynical) narrator who unreliably describes his own emotions, Barbara Covett in Notes on a Scandal, and Patrick Bateman in American Psycho . </Dd> <Dd> a narrator who does not take narrations seriously and consciously plays with conventions, truth, and the reader's expectations . Examples of the type include Tristram Shandy and Bras Cubas . </Dd>

Who is portrayed as immature in the beginning of the story