The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Other Characters

Richard Enfield
Utterson's distant kinsman and a "well-known man about town." He is similar in temperament to Utterson. The two men enjoy Sunday walks, putting "the greatest store by these excursions, count[ing] them the chief jewel of each week." They "not only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted." Enfield first alerts Utterson to the existence of Hyde.

In his book on Stevenson, Irving S. Saposnik finds Enfield "a strange, yet appropriate complement to his distant kinsman." This...


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