Dear Brutus (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Midsummer Eve
- Setting: England
- Genres: Drama, Fantasy
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Love or romance, 1910’s, England or English people, Fate or fatalism, Life, philosophy of
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Will Dearth, who in the drawing room is a shaky, watery-eyed relic of what was once a good man. An artist at one time, he and Alice Dearth had loved madly. In the woods, he is a successful artist and the father of a daughter named Margaret. He claims credit for all of his daughter’s charm, except her baby laugh; this she lost when he allowed her to lose perfect faith in him. Back in the drawing room, he grants that he is not the man he thought he was. The Dearths, probably the only ones to gain by their revelation, may be able to breast their way into the...
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