# William Perry Peters — Poetry character guide

> William Perry Peters in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Peters, Mr. William Perry Peters, Perry, whither Mr. Peters

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

A name Bierce's narrator invokes with mock solemnity, one of the respectable citizens whose doings the verse keeps half-ironically in view.

## In the story

### [Mr. Fink’s Debating Donkey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/mr-fink-s-debating-donkey)

A public educator and orator from Muscatel who loves debate and is blown out a window by a donkey's bray.

### [Constancy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/constancy)

Referenced as 'Hearst' (William Randolph Hearst), the other twin of constancy in the dream.

### [Yorick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/yorick)

Mentioned as Jim Peters who ran a faro game behind Wells Fargo.

### [The Woeful Tale of Mr. Peters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/the-woeful-tale-of-mr-peters)

A proud and learned schoolteacher from Muscatel who meets a bizarre death after being consumed by the heat of public attention at a convention.

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