# Adam Waggett — Memoirs of a Midget character guide

> Adam Waggett in Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Adam, Waggett, Poor Adam

**First appearance:** 0009-v

## Snapshot

A gawking, guffawing Lyndsey boy turned clumsy servant, whose old familiarity with the narrator threatens to expose her in a grand house.

## Who they are

Adam Waggett squeezes into Mrs. Monnerie's library like a startled Guy Fawkes, all button eyes and strangulated laughter at the sight of a face from Stonecote. His doltish affection and total inability to dissemble make him both comic and dangerous, since one careless word about the old cow and the thunderstorm could betray the narrator's carefully guarded position. He embodies the pull of her past and the precariousness of her present disguise.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_midget_se/chapters/ii)

A bumpkin son of a village friend, invited to tea in the kitchen; the narrator finds him coarse and distasteful.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_midget_se/chapters/iii)

Kills a Jenny Wren with a catapult; the narrator confronts him.

### [XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_midget_se/chapters/xx)

Mentioned in a memory of playing with a toy bow as a noisy little boy.

### [XL](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_midget_se/chapters/xl)

Appears unexpectedly in the library, causing the narrator to panic and instruct him to forget their past and not address her in company.

### [XLI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_midget_se/chapters/xli)

Adam Waggett is present at the luncheon; the narrator recalls his hand that held a wren and feels sick at heart.

### [XLV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_midget_se/chapters/xlv)

Adam interacts with the circus man and gipsy woman, protecting Rose and relaying the woman's words about the narrator being a 'gold mine.'

### [XLVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_midget_se/chapters/xlvi)

Recruited by the narrator to carry her to the circus in a cage; he reluctantly agrees after persuasion and a promised reward.

### [XLVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_midget_se/chapters/xlvii)

Covetous and fearful, he takes the showman's coins, is unnerved by locked doors and Mrs. French, and is persuaded by the narrator's threat of legal consequences.

### [L](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_midget_se/chapters/l)

The narrator leaves a message for Adam: 'The Bird is flown.'

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