The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Themes and Characters
The viewpoint character, Mr. Utterson, is introduced to us as a lawyer, who is frequently "the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men." He remains constant throughout the story. He is clearly the character with whom the author hoped the reader would identify. He is austere in his own appetites and simultaneously possesses enough sense of privacy to allow others to go to the devil in their own ways. Yet he has enough charity (or what passes for it) to look after their affairs when they are ruined.
The reader can intuit from the...
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