# Lionel Wallace — Short Fiction character guide

> Lionel Wallace in Short Fiction by H. G. Wells.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Wallace

**First appearance:** 0085-the-door-in-the-wall

## Who they are

A man who finds a door in a wall.

## In the story

### [The Door in the Wall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/the-door-in-the-wall)

Protagonist who repeatedly encounters a magical green door leading to an enchanted garden, representing his longing for an ideal world.

### [The Door in the Wall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/i)

The protagonist who shares his childhood memory of the enchanted garden and the Door in the Wall.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/ii)

Narrates his childhood memory of finding the green door and the enchanted garden, and his later failure to find it again after telling his secret.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/iii)

The politician friend who laments his failure to enter the magical door.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/iv)

The deceased man whose story the narrator recounts; found dead in an excavation near East Kensington Station.

## Links

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