Gullible’s Travels · Character
Mr. Bishop
A fellow traveler in the narrator's social orbit whose presence sharpens the comedy of manners aboard ship and ashore.
major
Also known as Bishop, Mr. Bishop
First appearance: gullible s travels
As a major figure in Gullible’s Travels, Mr. Bishop is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Bess's new acquaintance, a wealthy scenario writer who is the focus of the women's matchmaking.
He surfaces in the narrator's account of shipboard and hotel life, one of the acquaintances whose behavior the narrator measures against his own. The narrator's eye for social performance—who's dressed right, who's tipping, who's pretending—plays out through encounters like these. He matters as part of the ensemble that exposes the gap between the narrator's self-image and the genteel world he keeps failing to enter.
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See Mr. Bishop in gullible s travels