# Peter and Wendy — Character guide

> Key figures in Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie.

- [Peter Pan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/peter_pan.md): Peter is the eternal child-commander of Neverland, ruling the Lost Boys with cocky bravado and forgetting his own adventures almost as fast as he has them. He craves Wendy's stories and mothering but recoils from any bon
- [Wendy Darling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/wendy_darling.md): Wendy is the practical, sewing, story-telling heart of the Darling nursery, the girl her brothers follow and the one Peter recruits to keep house for the Lost Boys. She longs to be needed and admired, yet her domestic in
- [Captain Hook](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/captain_hook.md): Hook commands the pirate brig with theatrical menace and a genuine taste for cruelty, feared by his crew and haunted by the ticking of a crocodile that once ate his hand. Educated, vain, and prone to sudden weeping, he i
- [Mr. Darling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/mr_darling.md): Mr. Darling presides over 14 with pompous arithmetic and a nagging fear of being thought foolish, whether he is totting up the cost of a new baby or chaining the family dog in the nursery. He adores his children but meas
- [Mrs. Darling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/mrs_darling.md): Mrs. Darling keeps the nursery at 14 with tender, slightly dreamy care, drawing faceless babies in the account books and tidying her children's dreams after they fall asleep. She loves her husband and children deeply, ye
- [John Darling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/john_darling.md): John is the swaggering, self-important brother between Wendy and little Michael, forever rehearsing the parts of pirate, explorer, and man of the world. He wants to be taken seriously and to be brave, and his boyish post
- [Michael Darling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/michael_darling.md): Michael is the smallest Darling swept into the Neverland adventure, tagging after Wendy and John and racing his brother through the sky. His habit of falling asleep mid-flight turns him into Peter's favorite kind of spor
- [Tinker Bell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/tinker_bell.md): Tinker Bell belongs to Peter alone and makes that clear the moment Wendy appears, calling her a great ugly girl and vanishing into the bathroom in a huff. Her common origins, she mends kettles, and her rude, unapologetic
- [Nana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/nana.md): Nana occupies the odd position of family dog and trusted nursemaid, tucking the Darling children in, tying their feet to bedposts after Neverland, and guarding the nursery with a seriousness that borders on maternal. Her
- [Slightly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/slightly.md): Slightly is the Lost Boy who insists he once had a mother and lords it over the others with a pompousness that is more pitiable than impressive. His pretension is his defining flaw, and it makes him both a comic figure a
- [Tootles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/tootles.md): Tootles is the Lost Boy who always seems to arrive a moment too late, kind-hearted and hapless, forever on the edge of the action rather than in it. His defining quality is a gentle, almost apologetic goodness that the n
- [Smee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/smee.md): Smee serves as Hook's boatswain aboard the Jolly Roger, a soft-spoken pirate whose chief qualification is being the only man on the crew Hook can tolerate. His tension is that he is genuinely gentle, fussing over the cap
- [Nibs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/nibs.md): Nibs is one of Peter's band of Lost Boys, and the one whose cheerful nerve makes him the group's unofficial spokesman when Tinker Bell refuses to get out of bed. When Wendy offers to take them all home to be adopted, he 
- [Jane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/jane.md): Jane belongs to the grown-up world Wendy entered when she left the nursery behind, and she grows up hearing the tales her mother once lived. Her name carries the whole arc of the book: the girl who listened to stories be
- [Curly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/curly.md): A Lost Boy with curly hair who is part of Peter's band.
- [Gentleman Starkey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/gentleman_starkey.md): A well-dressed pirate and Hook's second-in-command.
- [Tiger Lily](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/peter_and_wendy_se/characters/tiger_lily.md): The proud princess of the Piccaninny tribe who rescues Peter.

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