# Robin — Moll Flanders character guide

> Robin in Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** brother Robin, Robert, Mr. Robert

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

## Snapshot

The younger brother of Moll's first household, whose honest affection and offer of marriage she accepts only after his elder brother's ruinous seduction.

## Who they are

Robin is decent, persistent, and oblivious to the affair between Moll and his elder brother, genuinely believing he has won her through his own merits. His marriage to Moll gives her brief respectability and entry into the gentry, but the union is shadowed by the secret she can never tell him. He matters as the road not taken — the possibility of honest love that Moll cannot fully inhabit because of what came before.

## Relationships

### [Moll Flanders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moll_flanders_se/characters/moll_flanders)

_romantic_

Moll marries Robin (the younger brother) after being seduced by his elder brother, though she does not love him.

### [The Elder Brother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moll_flanders_se/characters/the_elder_brother)

_family_

Robin is the younger brother of the Elder Brother, and their relationship is strained by the Elder Brother's manipulation.

### [The Gentleman at Bath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moll_flanders_se/characters/the_gentleman_at_bath)

_social_

Robin and the Gentleman at Bath have no significant relationship, only tangential social connection.

### [Moll Flanders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moll_flanders_se/characters/moll_flanders)

_romantic_

Moll marries Robin (the younger brother) after being seduced by his elder brother, though she does not love him.

### [The Gentleman at Bath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moll_flanders_se/characters/the_gentleman_at_bath)

_social_

Robin and the Gentleman at Bath have no significant relationship, only tangential social connection.

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