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Unit 6: Joseph Andrews: Picaresque Novel, Its Application and Characterization

Mrs. Adams Notes
Mrs. Adams is the wife of Mr. Adams and mother of his six children, prone to nagging but
also appreciative of her husband’s loving nature.

Parson Trulliber
Parson Trulliber is an entrepreneurial and greedy clergyman more dedicated to hog farming
than to the care of souls, who refuses to lend Mr. Adams money for his inn bill.

Mrs. Trulliber
Mrs. Trulliber downtrodden wife of Parson Trulliber.

Hunter of Men

Hunter of Men is an eccentric and rather sadistic country gentleman who sets his hunting
dogs on Mr. Adams, allows his friends to play cruel jokes on him, and attempts to abduct
Fanny.

Captain
Captain is one of the Squire’s friends, abducts Fanny on the Squire’s orders but is himself
taken prisoner by servants of Lady Booby.

Player
Player is one of the Squire’s friends, a failed actor who pursues Fanny on the Squire’s orders
but flees when the Captain is taken prisoner.

Poet

Poet is one of the Squire’s friends, a failed playwright who pursues Fanny on the Squire’s
orders but flees when the Captain is taken prisoner.

Quack-Doctor

Quack-Doctor is one of the Squire’s friends; comes up with a Socratic practical joke that
exploits Mr. Adams’s pedantry.

Priest

Priest is a man, who discourses on the vanity of riches before asking Mr. Adams for money
to pay his inn bill.

Lawyer Scout
Lawyer Scout tells Mr. Adams that Joseph has worked long enough to gain a settlement in
Lady Booby’s parish, but then becomes a willing accomplice in Lady Booby’s attempt to expel
Joseph and Fanny.

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