# Leo Dillon — Dubliners character guide

> Leo Dillon in Dubliners by James Joyce.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Leo, Dillon

**First appearance:** 0001-an-encounter

## Who they are

A timid schoolboy who fails to join the narrator and Mahony on their adventure.

## In the story

### [An Encounter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dubliners_se/chapters/an-encounter)

Fat younger brother of Joe; caught with a Wild West paper by Father Butler; fails to show up for the truant adventure.

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