Utterson

Question 1

Evidence to show that Utterson believes Jekyll is being blackmailed in Chapter 3

Answer 1

“you know me: I am a man to be trusted … and make no doubt I can get you out of it.”
- Reputation

Question 1

How is Utterson’s popularity shown at the beginning of Chapter 3

Answer 1

“Where Utterson was liked, he was liked well.”
- Reputation

Question 2

How is Utterson described at the beginning of Chapter 1

Answer 2

“A man of a rugged countenance , that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and somehow lovable”
- Reputation
- Self-repression

Question 3

How is Utterson’s self repression shown in Chapter 1

Answer 3

“He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages”
- Self-repression

“And though he enjoyed, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years”
- Self-repression

Question 4

How is Utterson’s loyalty to friends shown in Chapter 1

Answer 4

“His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time”
- Loyalty
- Reputation

Question 5

How is Utterson’s seriousness shown in Chapter 4

Answer 5

“grave countenance”