The narrator displays far less attachment/admiration for Pechorin. They are strangers, Pechorin is simply the main character in a true story recently told to him. The case is quite different for Maxim Maximych. Maxim holds him in very high regard and has (maybe inaccurately) judged him to be quite a good friend. From the interaction between the Pechorin and Maxim the reader may conclude that the description of Pechorin was with favoring bias. This conclusion further seperates him from the traditional protaganist with respectable traits. Maxim's friendly feelings towards him are damaged and the narrator views him in an increasingly negative light.