# Joey Percival — Misalliance character guide

> Joey Percival in Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Joey, Mr. Percival, Percival, Mr. Joseph Percival, Percival Withdrawing, Mister Percival, Percival Impossible, Percival Mr. Tarleton, Percival Miss Tarleton, Percival Patiently, Percival Hallo, Percival Nonsense, Percival Mr. Summerhays, Percival Miss Tarleton⁠

**First appearance:** 0000-misalliance

## Snapshot

A young aviator who drops into the Tarleton garden with the casual assurance of a man who has already survived more danger than the drawing room can offer.

## Who they are

Joey Percival arrives as a visitor whose flying exploits give him a glamour the other young men lack, and his ease with both the Tarletons and the Summerhays unsettles existing arrangements. He is intellectual without being pedantic, daring without being reckless, and his presence immediately complicates Hypatia's engagement. He matters because he represents a modern kind of hero whose credentials are earned in the air rather than inherited at birth.

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