Answer: First person protagonist.
As the first person protagonist, the narrator tells the story from a single perspective. In such a mode, the readers get to know the narrator's perspective, view of the characters, experiences and observations.
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charlie at the end of the story is mostly the same but at the end he was a little bit smarter, and aware that he was once smart. now he feels humiliated b/c he isn't as smart as he once was.