# Jemmy — Moll Flanders character guide

> Jemmy in Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** O Jemmy, Jemmy Cole

**First appearance:** 0001-moll-flanders

## Snapshot

A highwayman of genuine charm and courage who becomes Moll's true love, recognizing in her a kindred spirit who has also lived by wit and nerve.

## Who they are

Jemmy enters Moll's life as a fellow prisoner and fellow criminal, and their mutual recognition — each seeing in the other a mirror of their own disreputable past — produces the novel's most genuine emotional bond. He is neither exploiter nor victim but equal, and their partnership offers Moll something she has never had: love without pretense. His fate and their eventual reunion anchor the book's final movement toward something like redemption.

## In the story

### [Author's Preface](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moll_flanders_se/chapters/author-s-preface)

Referred to as Moll's transported husband, a highwayman whose life story is also noted as too lengthy for this volume.

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