Short Fiction · Character
John Andros
A successful businessman whose careful life is quietly undone by a married woman he meets by accident on the water.
supporting
Also known as John
First appearance: jacob s ladder
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Ardita's uncle, a gray-haired man in a white-flannel suit, who tries to persuade her to go ashore and forbids her marriage to a libertine.
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John Andros moves through the world as a man who has gotten what he wanted, until a moonlit evening and a stranger's confession make him realize how much he still wants what he cannot have. The woman in the rowboat is…
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- Other
Character groups
- Varied fates and transformations
- Social circles and charm
- Social climbers and romantics
- Wealth and isolation
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See John Andros in jacob s ladder