Jacob's Room · Character
Evan Williams
A friend of Jacob's from Cambridge, who later travels abroad.
minor
Also known as Evan
First appearance: iii
Evan Williams's tie to Jacob Flanders is one of the pressures that moves Jacob's Room—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
Feels jealousy towards Jacob and Sandra, envies Sandra, and invites Jacob to Corinth.
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With Jacob Flanders (social): Evan Williams is Sandra's husband, a passive figure who tolerates Jacob's presence with quiet, uneasy politeness. With Jacob Flanders (social): Evan Williams is Sandra's husband, a passive…
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Relationship types
- Social
- Other
Character groups
- Paris artistic milieu
- Protagonist
- Cornwall family circle
- Cambridge social network
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Closing
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social · ambivalent
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- Jacob Flanders
social · ambivalent
Evan Williams is Sandra's husband, a passive figure who tolerates Jacob's presence with… How this plays out →
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