# Boitelle — Short Fiction character guide

> Boitelle in Short Fiction by Guy de Maupassant.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Boitelle Old Antoine Boitelle, Antoine Boitelle, Antoine, young Boitelle, Old Boitelle

**First appearance:** 0362-boitelle

## Snapshot

A young Norman farmhand whose tender heart and stubborn honesty make him the victim of his parents' refusal to accept the woman he loves.

## Who they are

Antoine Boitelle is a sturdy peasant son who falls hard for a Black woman he meets in town, seeing only her kindness and beauty where his family sees scandal. Caught between filial duty and his own desires, he becomes the story's aching center, a man whose simple decency is no match for the inherited prejudice closing around him. His quiet grief turns a village anecdote into a lasting indictment.

## In the story

### [Boitelle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_23_se/chapters/boitelle)

The protagonist, a scavenger who blames his parents for opposing his marriage to a Black woman, which he believes led to his miserable life.

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