All Creatures Great and Small | Characters
The narrator, James Herriot, is a favorite among publishers, critics, and readers. He is modest, sincere, slow to anger, never pretentious, and often writes of himself as ridiculous and laughable. But foremost, he is likable for his love and appreciation of the Dales — whether in repeating dialect, describing a man's work-swollen hands or an animal's sickly eye, celebrating how he stops the car to sit on the grass and watch the country, or briefly touching on the look of Helen, the daughter of the country, whom he eventually marries.
Siegfried, the vet who hires Herriot during...
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