Amaryllis at the Fair · Character
Amadis Iden
Amaryllis's invalid brother, too feeble to earn a shilling and full of ideas, who loves her with a hopelessness that sharpens the novel's sense of wasted fitness.
supporting
Also known as Amadis the invalid, Iden, Amadis
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As a supporting figure in Amaryllis at the Fair, Amadis Iden is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Arrives as a visitor from Iden Court, carrying a portmanteau.
Amadis is poor, debilitated, and talking of seeing the doctor again about his fearful debility, yet he sits with Amaryllis on the brown oak timber in the long grass and is happier than he has been in months. He knows he cannot offer her the life she deserves — a Launcelot du Lake with the income of Sir Gorgius Midas — and the narrator grieves over the mismatch. Their summer idyll becomes the book's tenderest interlude, a pause in the play of human life before care and poverty resume.
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