utterson

• utterson serves as a good counter point to the extremes of jekyll and hyde and provides the narritve through a good anchor through his portrayl as an ordinary victorian man
• he is a lover of a 'sane and customary life'
• he drinks gin to 'mortify the taste of vintages'- he drinks alone and put himself of the pleasure of drinking itself
• 'cold and deary... but somehow loveable'
• 'embarrassed in discourse'
• 'last good influence of the lives of down going men' chap 1