# Hooker — Short Fiction character guide

> Hooker in Short Fiction by H. G. Wells.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0015-the-moth

## Snapshot

A figure in Wells's tale of scientific rivalry, caught between the claims of a strange discovery and the ordinary loyalties of an English life.

## Who they are

Hooker moves through a world of laboratories, professional jealousy, and the quiet cruelties men practise on one another in the name of science. His loyalties and his curiosity pull against each other, and the strain shows in how he handles what he finds and whom he chooses to tell. He matters because the story's central question — what a discovery does to the people who touch it — is worked out through his choices.

## In the story

### [The Treasure in the Forest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/the-treasure-in-the-forest)

The other treasure hunter; he realizes the thorns are poisoned and dies after attempting to suck out the venom.

### [The Flying Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/the-flying-man)

One of the Derbyshire men in the lieutenant's expedition; he shoots a Chin at long range.

### [The Argonauts of the Air](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/the-argonauts-of-the-air)

A workman on Monson's project, affected by Monson's frustration.

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