# Pudd’nhead Wilson — Character guide

> Key figures in Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain.

- [Tom Driscoll](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/tom_driscoll.md): Tom returns from college to his uncle's household as the presumed Driscoll heir, expecting indulgence and finding his aunt's and the Judge's hopes pinned on his reform. He craves money, status, and the freedom to spend b
- [Roxana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/roxana.md): Roxy belongs to Judge Driscoll's household, a woman whose beauty, nerve, and fierce maternal love set her apart even in bondage. After years of steamboat work she returns to Dawson's Landing poor, disabled, and dreaming 
- [Pudd'nhead Wilson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/puddnhead_wilson.md): Wilson arrives in Dawson's Landing as a young lawyer and is promptly ruined socially by a remark the town misreads as idiocy. He keeps his humor, his calendar of aphorisms, and his hobby of fingerprinting, befriending th
- [Chambers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/chambers.md): Chambers grows up as young Tom's valet and whipping boy, learning deference so thoroughly that it shapes his voice and bearing. He is mocked, ordered about, and treated as property, yet he shares a household and a childh
- [Judge Driscoll](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/judge_driscoll.md): The Judge is the town's leading man, secure enough in his standing to hold unorthodox views and keep his place. He dotes on his nephew Tom with a mixture of pride and anxious hope, and he treats Wilson with a tenderness 
- [Count Luigi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/luigi.md): Luigi and his brother Angelo take lodgings with Aunt Patsy Cooper, becoming the town's first exotic sensation and the object of everyone's curiosity. He is polished, traveled, and self-possessed, but his foreignness and 
- [Count Angelo Capello](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/angelo.md): The gentler half of a pair of Italian twins, Angelo Capello is courteous, devout, and quietly overshadowed by his brother's theatrics in a town that barely knows what to make of foreigners.
- [Pembroke Howard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/pembroke_howard.md): A lawyer and friend of Judge Driscoll, involved in the duel.
- [Constable Blake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/constable_blake.md): The town constable who investigates the murder.
- [Mrs. Rachel Pratt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/mrs_pratt.md): A kind woman who helps Roxana after her return.
- [Rowena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/rowena.md): A young woman briefly courted by Tom.
- [Aunt Patsy Cooper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/aunt_patsy.md): A local woman who hosts the twins and others.
- [Mrs. Percy Driscoll](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/mrs_percy_driscoll.md): Tom's mother, who dies early in the story.
- [John Buckstone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/pudd_nhead_wilson_se/characters/john_buckstone.md): A local politician and friend of Judge Driscoll.

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