Which type of narrator uses “I” to tell the story?

First-person narrators tell the story using “I” (and sometimes “we”), placing the reader inside the narrator’s mind and experiences. This viewpoint offers intimacy and subjectivity—what we see and know are filtered through that character’s perceptions and biases. Think of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye or Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby guiding us with their own words and judgments. To remember: First = “I’m first.” In contrast, second-person addresses “you,” while third-person uses “he/she/they,” and an omniscient narrator is a third-person voice with godlike knowledge of all characters. First-person can be powerful for unreliable narrators, whose limited or skewed understanding shapes the story’s tension and surprise.