# Mr. Bishop — Gullible’s Travels character guide

> Mr. Bishop in Gullible’s Travels by Ring Lardner.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Bishop, Mr. Bishop

**First appearance:** 0001-gullible-s-travels

## Snapshot

A fellow traveler in the narrator's social orbit whose presence sharpens the comedy of manners aboard ship and ashore.

## Who they are

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.

## In the story

### [Three Kings and a Pair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gullible_s_travels_se/chapters/three-kings-and-a-pair)

Bess's new acquaintance, a wealthy scenario writer who is the focus of the women's matchmaking.

### [The Water Cure](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gullible_s_travels_se/chapters/the-water-cure)

Bishop is Bess's love interest, claiming to be a scenario writer earning ten thousand a year, but the narrator discovers he is actually an extra earning five dollars a day.

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