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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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ETEphraim Tellwr…ATAgnes TellwrightWPWillie PriceMBMr. BanksBSBeatrice SuttonTPTitus Price

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  • Central family and suitors

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
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  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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See Titus Price in i the kindling of love