# Mr. Glowry — Nightmare Abbey character guide > Mr. Glowry in Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock. **Role:** major **Also known as:** the melancholy Mr. Glowry, the sympathetic Mr. Glowry, the moody Mr. Glowry **First appearance:** 0002-i ## Snapshot Scythrop's gloom-loving father, who reads Ecclesiastes for comfort, collects tragic friends, and treats marriage as a lottery no man should enter. ## Who they are Mr. Glowry presides over Nightmare Abbey as a connoisseur of melancholy, gathering moody guests and toasting sad partings with a bumper of wine. Widowed and bitter, he insists that women's minds are locked up by vanity and interest, and that choice in marriage is a delusion. His determination to marry Scythrop to the serious Stella Toobad, against his son's attraction to the sprightly Marionetta, sets the household's romantic machinery in motion. ## Relationships ### [Scythrop Glowry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/scythrop_glowry) _family_ Mr. Glowry is Scythrop's melancholic and domineering father, who constantly pressures him about marriage and estate matters. ### [Mr. Cypress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_cypress) _friendship_ Mr. Cypress and Mr. Glowry share a bond of mutual gloom and philosophical despair, reinforcing each other's dark worldview. ### [Mr. Toobad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_toobad) _friendship_ Mr. Glowry and Mr. Toobad are fellow melancholics and friends, sharing a pessimistic philosophy about the world's evil. ### [Mr. Hilary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_hilary) _family_ Mr. Glowry and Mr. Hilary are brothers, with Hilary's cheerfulness constantly irritating Glowry's melancholy. ### [Mr. Cypress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_cypress) _friendship_ Mr. Cypress and Mr. Glowry share a bond of mutual gloom and philosophical despair, reinforcing each other's dark worldview. ### [Scythrop Glowry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/scythrop_glowry) _family_ Mr. Glowry is Scythrop's melancholic and domineering father, who constantly pressures him about marriage and estate matters. ### [Mr. Toobad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_toobad) _friendship_ Mr. Glowry and Mr. Toobad are fellow melancholics and friends, sharing a pessimistic philosophy about the world's evil. ### [Mr. Toobad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_toobad) _friendship_ Mr. Glowry and Mr. Toobad are fellow melancholics and friends, sharing a pessimistic philosophy about the world's evil. ### [Mr. Hilary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_hilary) _family_ Mr. Glowry and Mr. Hilary are brothers, with Hilary's cheerfulness constantly irritating Glowry's melancholy. ### [Mr. Hilary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_hilary) _family_ Mr. Glowry and Mr. Hilary are brothers, with Hilary's cheerfulness constantly irritating Glowry's melancholy. ### [Scythrop Glowry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/scythrop_glowry) _family_ Mr. Glowry is Scythrop's melancholic and domineering father, who constantly pressures him about marriage and estate matters. ## In the story ### [Nightmare Abbey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/nightmare-abbey) The melancholy owner of Nightmare Abbey, who arranges a marriage for his son Scythrop with Miss Toobad. ### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/i) The melancholy owner of Nightmare Abbey, a widower who was disappointed in love and friendship, and who now believes the only good thing in life is a good dinner. ### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/ii) Departs for London to attend to a lawsuit, leaving Scythrop alone at the Abbey. ### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/iii) Returns from London having lost his lawsuit; laments the degenerate age with Scythrop and hosts the arriving guests. ### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/iv) Confronts Scythrop about his attachment to Marionetta, reveals his arranged marriage plan with Mr. Toobad's daughter, and is forced to capitulate to Scythrop's threat. ### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/viii) Observes Marionetta's sadness and begins to reconcile himself to the idea of her as his daughter, given the improbability of Miss Toobad's return. ### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/ix) Enters during the reconciliation, joins their hands to betroth them, then is dismayed when Marionetta rejects the plan; remains melancholy. ### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xi) Hosts the dinner and repeatedly calls for collective unhappiness. ### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xii) Roars in pain when the table is overturned on his foot. ### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xiii) Discovers the secret chamber and Stella, confronts Scythrop about the hidden lady. ### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xiv) Tries to reason with Scythrop, offers to plead his cause if he chooses one, departs after securing a week's patience. ### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/chapters/xv) Returns alone from his mission, delivers the rejection letters, and offers Scythrop paternal advice. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters/mr_glowry - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nightmare_abbey_se/characters