Who is the narrator, can she or he read minds, and, more importantly, can we trust her or him?
First Person (Central Narrator)
Augie March narrates The Adventures of Augie March. For the most part, he tells his tales in roughly a chronological order, although he'll jump around and tie in insights he learned at some other time. He's a longwinded chap, never hesitant to work into his narrative a bit of history, judgment, philosophical musing, or a very detailed physical description. Oh, and he loves a good reference. Here he is describing how Einhorn took the Crash in 1929:
The Crash was Einhorn's Cyrus and the bank failures his pyre, the poolroom his exile from Lydia and the hoodlums Cambyses, whose menace he managed, somehow, to get around. (7.1)
Sure, why not romanticize his boss by comparing him to the ancient king of Lydia, Croesus? We've all done that, right? Well, maybe not. Let's just say this is Augie's way of sounding hip the way we would with a Game of Thrones or Mad Men reference.