Miss Witherfield His hysterical middle-aged fiancée. Peter Magnus A nervous, jealous suitor who involves the Pickwickians in trouble at Ipswich. Jack Bamber A half-crazed, seedy law clerk, he relates a wild tale. Jackson Dodson and Fogg's oily law clerk. Perker's cynical law clerk.ĭodson and Fogg The unscrupulous law partners who handle Mrs. Pickwick is taken prisoner.Ĭaptain Boldwig A ferocious country squire near Bury St. Miss Tomkins The headmistress of the boarding school at Bury St. Job Trotter A cunning, emaciated actor whom Alfred Jingle employs as a servant. Leo Hunter Her stiff, servile husband.Ĭount Smorltork A silly foreigner at Mrs. Leo Hunter A fatuous celebrity hunter at Eatanswill. The one-eyed bagman A traveling salesman who tells stories at Eatanswill and Bristol. Horatio Fizkin The Buff candidate at the Eatanswill election. Samuel Slumkey The Blue candidate and winner of the Eatanswill election. Slurk Editor of the Eatanswill Independent, Mr. Pott His aggressive wife, who becomes fond of Winkle, throws hysterics, and eventually leaves her husband. Pott Editor of the Eatanswill Gazette a pompous, vindictive, cowardly, henpecked man. Master Tommy Bardell Her squalling young son. Thrown in jail because she cannot pay her legal fees, Mr. Pickwick's landlady, she assumes he has proposed to her and sues for breach of promise. He admires legal chicanery but has a good heart and is a friend to his two clients. Pickwick engages as a servant, and who becomes Mr. Sam Weller A shrewd, cocky, clever, affectionate cockney boot cleaner and general handyman whom Mr. Miller A neighbor of Wardles' who puts his foot in his mouth. Trundle Isabella Wardle's colorless fiancé and husband.Īn old clergyman A storyteller with a cheerful disposition and a gloomy mind at Wardles'. Joe the Fat Boy A gluttonous, sleepy servant to Mr. Wardle's partly deaf, cantankerous old mother. Wardle's spinster sister, she flirts with Tupman and unsuccessfully elopes with Jingle. Trundle during the Christmas festivities. Wardle's other pretty daughter, she marries Mr. Wardle's pert, pretty daughter Snodgrass' sweetheart. Fond of the Pickwickians, he entertains them on several occasions.Įmily Wardle Mr. Wardle A hospitable country squire at Dingley Dell. Sir Thomas Clubber Another member of Rochester society. Jem Hutley (Dismal Jemmy) A cadaverous strolling actor who tells the Pickwickians a morbid tale.Ĭolonel and Mrs. Payne A savage army man who attends the duel to see bloodshed. Slammer's second at the duel, a stickler for rules.ĭr. Slammer An army man who challenges Winkle to a duel at Rochester, he is irascible and has a taste for violence when frustrated. He is brought low in the Fleet Prison and rehabilitated by Mr. Blotton An unpleasant member of the club with a keen eye for humbug.Īlfred Jingle A romantic adventurer who schemes for various mercenary marriages, which Mr. Pickwick's aid in his romance and marriage with Arabella Allen. A member of the Pickwick Club, he enlists Mr. Nathaniel Winkle A very inept young sportsman, Winkle has a flair for misadventures. He falls in love with Emily Wardle and marries her. He has an unhappy flirtation with Rachael Wardle.Īugustus Snodgrass A young, innocuous fellow, he poses as the poet of the Pickwick Club, although he never writes a line of verse. Tracy Tupman Fat and middle-aged, he fancies himself to be the romantic adventurer of the Pickwick Club. His adventures and developing character are the center of interest. Little people trying to puff themselves up is the eternal stuff of which comedy is made.Samuel Pickwick Founder of the Pickwick Club and hero of the novel a fat, bald, elderly, innocent, generous, benevolent gentleman. Except when the deception is parasitic and corrupt, as it is in the law, Dickens enjoys pretense for its own sake, as part of the theater of life. He sees through all types of deception and pretense, whether it is personal or institutional. Dickens' attitude is that of a humane skeptic. Other groups are caricatured as well: women over thirty, pompous provincials, and poseurs of every kind. The law, the military, the medical, the evangelistic, the socialities, the press, and politics all receive satirical treatment. One large element of Dickens' point of view is irreverence for certain established institutions. The funniness of comedy lies as much in the author's point of view as it does in the actions he depicts. Comedy is essentially an attitude toward the world, a way of selecting and viewing human behavior. The comedy of Pickwick Papers is more than the use of humorous techniques, although it includes these elements.
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