# Morgan — Poetry character guide

> Morgan in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** XII A Wasted Life Of Morgan

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

A man whose life, in Bierce's reckoning, amounts to waste — a cautionary figure in the poet's gallery of squandered fates.

## In the story

### [XII: A Wasted Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/xii-a-wasted-life)

The subject of the epitaph, a man who joined the Masons to betray their secrets but found nothing to reveal and died by his own hand.

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