To Amanda Verdadero, while the narrator is purposely ambiguous due to the first person narrative, through his observations readers can infer a few key points to the man. It is true that he is a person who is very critical of others. The readers may never find out whether he is a virtuous man or not. However, his desire to tell the tales as they are reveals that he is a man who at least likes honesty in himself. From his descriptions of the other pilgrims readers might be able to infer that he is critical of others’ sins and therefore does not practice those sins himself, otherwise he would be insulting himself. On the other hand, he could be a hypocrite as you have said, and merely point out others’ flaws and not his own.