Anna of the Five Towns · Character
Titus Price
Willie's father, a struggling businessman and chapel figure known as 'owd Price,' whose financial troubles and miserly dealings shadow his son's prospects in Bursley.
supporting
Also known as Mr. Price, owd Price, old Titus
First appearance: i the kindling of love
As a supporting figure in Anna of the Five Towns, Titus Price is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Sunday-school superintendent who is deeply in arrears on rent; Anna is shocked by his hypocrisy and his shabby appearance at the works.
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Titus Price scrapes along in the Five Towns' commercial margins, his affairs tangled with the Tellwrights' money and his son Willie's future. He is a man of chapel respectability and pinched means, the kind whose…
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