The Invalids Story Character Analysis The narrator of the story called Capn by Thompson the expressman is one of two victims of a case of mistaken identities which involves a coffin containing his dead friend John B Hackett and a box of guns with Limburger cheese on top The narrator is only forty one years old but he says that he has aged prematurely as the result of his misadventures two years ago In the first line of the story he states that he seems to be a sixty year old man that is married