Yes and no. Some narratives go bottom up (which then means to read from the start in the file), while some go top down (which then means to read from the end of the file). I often find the Common Lisp approach of whole-file compilation more flexible in structuring the code at top level.
Of course, if you just jump around between individual toplevel forms, it doesn’t matter at all. However, I believe that the idea of reading code as a whole is precious. Too often, we lose sight of the whole, and then optimize or abstract things that shouldn’t exist in the first place.