# Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance — Character guide

> Key figures in Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance by Mark Rutherford.

- [Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/narrator.md): Rutherford is a first-person narrator whose editor warns readers he is no hero—weak, impressionable, and prone to self-created torments—yet possessed of passionate affection and unflinching honesty. Newly lodged in Camde
- [Job](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/job.md): Job surfaces in Rutherford's theological notes as a figure whose story the narrator analyzes and identifies with, a righteous man crushed by calamity and demanding answers from heaven. His refusal to accept easy consolat
- [Clement](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/clement.md): Clement belongs to the intimate circle of Rutherford's daily life, one of the few figures who knows him well enough to witness his self-created impressions and morbid speculations at close range. Where Rutherford is weak
- [Mrs. Butts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/mrs_butts.md): Mrs. Butts is part of the small domestic world Rutherford inhabits after taking his single room near the Camden Road, one of the recurring figures of his daily rounds. Her plain, unphilosophical concerns stand in quiet c
- [Narrator's Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/narrators_wife.md): She is the woman who shares Rutherford's home and endures alongside him the uncertainties of his employment and the heaviness of his temperament. Where he is weak, impressionable, and prone to morbid speculation, she off
- [Clark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/clark.md): An acquaintance or colleague of the narrator, appearing in social contexts.
- [Miss Leroy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/miss_leroy.md): Miss Leroy—sometimes called old Leroy—is an elderly presence whose path crosses Rutherford's and whose needs or history gradually make her more than a passing acquaintance. Her age and vulnerability engage the narrator's
- [Ellen Butts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/ellen_butts.md): A young woman bound to the Butts family, whose personal story quietly tests Rutherford's sympathies and his instinct for entangling himself in other people's troubles.
- [Marie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/marie.md): A child under Rutherford's roof, whose small presence asks for tenderness from a man more accustomed to speculating about himself than caring for anyone.
- [John](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/john.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or neighbor.
- [Eliphaz the Temanite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/eliphaz.md): One of Job's friends, appearing in the biblical commentary.
- [Mark Rutherford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/rutherford.md): A morbid, impressionable London journalist with ten pounds in his pocket, who turns his own spiritual struggles into the autobiography we are reading.
- [Jesus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/jesus.md): Religious figure discussed in theological contexts.
- [Mrs. M'Kay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/mrs_mkay.md): The landlady of Rutherford's Camden Town lodgings, whose ordinary domestic presence measures the distance between his restless mind and the world of plain, working people.
- [Mrs. Taylor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/mrs_taylor.md): A neighbor or acquaintance of the narrator.
- [George Butts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/george_butts.md): A member of the Butts family, possibly Ellen's relative.
- [Mrs. Cardinal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/mrs_cardinal.md): A minor character, possibly a neighbor or acquaintance.
- [The Almighty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/the_almighty.md): God as referenced in prayer and theological discussion.
- [Bildad the Shuhite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/bildad.md): One of Job's friends in the biblical commentary.
- [Satan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/satan.md): Adversary figure in the biblical commentary on Job.
- [Jehovah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/characters/jehovah.md): Name of God used in theological contexts.

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