# Chance — Character guide

> Key figures in Chance by Joseph Conrad.

- [Charles Powell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/charles_powell.md): Powell arrives at the Ferndale green and untried, grateful for a berth after the humiliation of job-hunting in London, and eager to prove himself under a captain he barely knows. His youth makes him watchful rather than 
- [Flora de Barral](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/flora_de_barral.md): Flora de Barral is a girl whose father's ruin has made her a burden passed among reluctant relatives, and she reads every kindness as a trap. Her flight from her aunt's household and her refusal to be liked by people she
- [Fyne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/fyne.md): Fyne is a serious little man of the Civil Service who tramps England's footpaths and writes about them, married by pure accident to Miss Anthony. Earnest and grave, he takes Flora's plight more to heart than his wife doe
- [Mrs. Fyne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/mrs_fyne.md): Mrs. Fyne is a woman of decided views and splendid teeth, presiding over her household with the calm efficiency of a capable governess rather than a warm hostess. She shelters Flora after her flight but treats the girl's
- [Captain Anthony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/captain_anthony.md): Captain Anthony is a sailor of simple, principled character, known to Marlow only through the accident of Fyne's marriage to his sister. He arrives in London from a long voyage and drifts into the Fynes' circle, where hi
- [Marlow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/marlow.md): Marlow is a reflective mariner whose acquaintance with the Fynes in the country and later with young Powell gives him the threads of a story he cannot let go. He narrates with a sailor's patience and a philosopher's curi
- [de Barral](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/de_barral.md): Once hailed as the great de Barral, a man whose financial genius seemed to bend fortune itself, he now exists as a cautionary monument to vanity and collapse. His ruin is not merely financial but moral: it leaves Flora a
- [Franklin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/franklin.md): Franklin has sailed with Roderick Anthony for six years without a cross word, yet the captain's sudden silence and strange marriage leave him wounded and watchful. His devotion is genuine but possessive, and he reads the
- [Mr. Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/mr_smith.md): A mysterious figure who appears in connection with de Barral's past.
- [Carleon Anthony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/carleon_anthony.md): Father of Captain Anthony, a famous poet mentioned in the narrative.
- [Mrs. Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/mrs_brown.md): A woman who appears briefly in connection with Flora's early life.
- [Ted](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chance_se/characters/ted.md): A minor character mentioned in the narrative.

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