She is the owner of the mansion that Sikes and Crackit attempt to rob, the mother of Harry Maylie and the adopted aunt of Rose Maylie. Maylie is an older lady, who despite her age is very dignified and stately. He is in his late twenties, but haggard in appearance, with extremely deep set eyes, and suffers from fits. He offers to pay Fagin to corrupt Oliver, so that he may have Oliver’s inheritance. Edward LeefordĮdward is Oliver’s half-brother, who goes by the alias Monks for most of the novel.
Bumble is the beadle of the parish, a fat and choleric man who takes great joy in abusing those below him, and is often offended by their impositions on him. Maylie, and ends up marrying Harry Maylie. Maylie’s niece, a beautiful seventeen-year-old woman, who is both intelligent and perfectly kind. He often mistreats, and eventually kills her. Bill SikesĪ stoutly-built man in his thirties, Bill is a vicious housebreaker and thief who often works with Fagin, and is involved with Nancy. Nancy eventually betrays Fagin and Sikes to save Oliver, but she will not leave them, and pays her life for this decision. Nancy is a young woman and prostitute raised into that profession by Fagin. He takes a liking to Oliver even after suspecting him of stealing his handkerchief, and takes him in, doing everything he can to help him. Brownlow is a very respectable-looking elderly gentleman, who has had his heart broken many times, including losing his fiancee on the day of their wedding. It is Fagin who tries to turn Oliver into a thief, and who betrays Nancy to Sikes, leading to her death. FaginĪ very old man, with a villainous-looking and repulsive face, Fagin is the leader of a gang of boy thieves, and a very greedy and vicious man. His generosity of spirit is total, and even when faced with serious maltreatment, he never loses his sense of morality or kindness. Oliver is a young, good-hearted, and kind-but often mistreated-orphan who is raised in a workhouse, and finds himself indentured to an undertaker, living with thieves, and eventually taken in by the kind Mr.
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