What type of person is Mr Utterson? (What does he do for a living and what is his personality like?)

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

What type of person is Mr Utterson? (What does he do for a living and what is his personality like?)

explore/research the meanings of the following quotations to use to justify your point:
“drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages”
“I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say. “I let my brother go to the devil in his quaintly own way.”
“his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time”

Asked by Imy B #1026561 on 6/1/2020 4:25 PM

Last updated by jill d #170087 on 6/1/2020 5:27 PM

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 6/1/2020 5:27 PM

The narrator of the book, Utterson is a middle-aged lawyer, and a man in which all the characters confide throughout the novel. As an old friend of Jekyll, he recognizes the changes and strange occurrences of Jekyll and Hyde, and resolves to further investigate the relationship between the two men. He is perhaps the most circumspect, respected, and rational character in the book, and it is therefore significant that we view Hyde's crimes and Jekyll's hypocrisy through his observant, but generally sympathetic perspective.

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