Watson

• Watson is a romantic

  “her large blue eyes… ‘what an attractive woman!’”

  ”her sweet grave face”

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  foil to SH:

  ”detection is…. an exact science... cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism”
• watson fears social inequality between him and MM


  “half-pay surgeon… vulgar fortune seeker”

  ”the golden barrier was gone from between us ’Thank Gods”

  ”What was I… with a weak leg and even weaker banking account….?”

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• watson is a homodigetic narrator


  provides a BIASED perspective of the story:

  • mary morstan is presented to the reader as attractive, through dr watson's eyes
  • tonga is presented as "a savage" reflecting both the Victorian fear of others, and CD's view on the foreign

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