# Confessions of an English Opium-Eater — Character guide

> Key figures in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey.

- [Thomas De Quincey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/characters/narrator.md): He is the confessing subject himself: a scholar of uncommon analytic ambition who insists that no human experience is foreign to him, and who measures his own dreams against the visions of poets. His central tension is t
- [Ann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/characters/ann.md): She moves through the narrator's London exile as a companion in destitution, sharing what little she has with a young man who has nothing. The bond is tender and precarious, shadowed by the knowledge that such figures va
- [Lord D——](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/characters/lord_d.md): He stands at the threshold between the narrator's vagrant youth and his brief season of ordered, scholarly life, providing employment, access to books, and the ordinary dignities of a gentleman's estate. The relationship
- [Piranesi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/characters/piranesi.md): An artist whose dreamlike architectural prints haunt the narrator's opium visions.
- [Awsiter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/characters/awsiter.md): An apothecary who supplies the narrator with opium.
- [Samuel Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/characters/dr_johnson.md): The English writer and lexicographer, cited as an authority on opium.
- [Anastasius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/characters/anastasius.md): A character from a novel whose adventures the narrator reads while on opium.
- [Betty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/characters/betty.md): A servant in the narrator's household.
- [Mr. Harriott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/characters/harriott.md): A man who assists the narrator during his early struggles in London.
- [William Lithgow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/characters/william_lithgow.md): A Scottish traveler whose writings are mentioned in the text.

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