  In the r/AmITheAsshole subreddit, people anonymously share first person
narratives that contain some moral dilemma or conflict and ask the community to
judge who is at fault (i.e., who is "the asshole"). In general, first person
narratives are a unique storytelling domain where the author is the narrator
(the person telling the story) but can also be a character (the person living
the story) and, thus, the author has two distinct voices presented in the
story. In this study, we identify linguistic and narrative features associated
with the author as the character or as a narrator. We use these features to
answer the following questions: (1) what makes an asshole character and (2)
what makes an asshole narrator? We extract both Author-as-Character features
(e.g., demographics, narrative event chain, and emotional arc) and
Author-as-Narrator features (i.e., the style and emotion of the story as a
whole) in order to identify which aspects of the narrative are correlated with
the final moral judgment. Our work shows that "assholes" as Characters frame
themselves as lacking agency with a more positive personal arc, while
"assholes" as Narrators will tell emotional and opinionated stories.
