# The Blind Man — Aesop's Fables character guide

> The Blind Man in Aesop's Fables by Aesop.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** The Blind Man, the Blind Man, The Man

**First appearance:** 0043-the-blind-man-and-the-cub

## Who they are

A sightless man who raises a wolf cub and learns a hard lesson.

## In the story

### [The Flea and the Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-flea-and-the-man)

The man, angered by the flea's bites, catches and kills it, asserting that even minor evils must be destroyed.

### [The Blind Man and the Cub](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-blind-man-and-the-cub)

Uses his fine sense of touch to identify animals, but cannot distinguish between a wolf cub and a fox cub.

### [The Boasting Traveller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-boasting-traveller)

The boasting traveller who claims to have made a remarkable jump in Rhodes.

### [The Man and the Image](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-man-and-the-image)

The poor man who prays to the wooden image and later destroys it in anger, finding gold inside.

### [The Man and the Satyr](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-man-and-the-satyr)

The man blows on his hands to warm them and on his porridge to cool it, demonstrating contradictory behavior.

### [The Man and His Two Sweethearts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-man-and-his-two-sweethearts)

A middle-aged man with greying hair who is caught between the conflicting desires of his two sweethearts.

### [The Weasel and the Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-weasel-and-the-man)

Captures the weasel and decides to kill it despite its plea, judging its harm outweighs its good.

### [The Swan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-swan)

Buys the Swan expecting entertainment, but fails to understand its nature and regrets not wringing its neck.

## Links

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