# The Man — Misalliance character guide

> The Man in Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** the man, The man, The Man Lucinda Titmus, The Man Retreating

**First appearance:** 0000-misalliance

## Snapshot

A stranger who arrives at the Tarleton house with a revelation, turning a weekend of tennis and lounging into a reckoning nobody invited.

## Who they are

He enters the glass pavilion world of Surrey leisure as an outsider whose very presence unsettles the household's easy assumptions about class, family, and respectability. His dramatic announcement forces the Tarletons—and the audience—to confront what polite society prefers to keep behind closed doors. He is the play's hinge: once he speaks, nothing in the drawing-room comedy can stay merely comic.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/misalliance_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

The mysterious man is a key figure in the narrative, with his actions and words closely tracked by the narrator.

### [Johnny Tarleton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/misalliance_se/characters/johnny_tarleton)

_rivalry_

Johnny is suspicious and hostile toward the mysterious man, seeing him as a threat to his family and social order.

### [Tarleton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/misalliance_se/characters/tarleton)

_friendship_

Tarleton is intrigued by the man and engages him in philosophical debate, treating him as an intellectual equal.

## Links

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