Natasha

From the very start Nabokov creates an interesting dynamic between the three characters within the story where they are all constantly lying to each other, or at lease unwilling to recognize the truth. He is very heavy handed, dropping hints about what is real in the characters life, which contradicts the things the characters are claiming as truth. This is especially evident with Natasha's character as she quickly says that her father is doing better. The fact that the excitement is left out of the statement make it clear that her father may in fact not be doing well at all, despite the fact that the reader is in the dark about her father's condition. The only character that is proven to have told the truth is the fever-riden father, whom is constantly in the midst of a wild fever dream or delusion. On the first page of the reading he claims that he is going to die the next day, but Natasha and Wolfe both write it off as sickly depression, when they are the ones deluded by their own visions of grandeur.