# Mr. Monson — Short Fiction character guide

> Mr. Monson in Short Fiction by H. G. Wells.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Monson

**First appearance:** 0073-the-land-ironclads

## Snapshot

A man who builds a giant land ironclad, a figure of mechanical ambition whose creation looms over the story's world of speculation and war.

## Who they are

Monson belongs to a world of engineering schemes and business intrigue, the kind of man whose inventions carry weight in the affairs of cities and armies. His land ironclad is a machine of enormous scale, and the story circles the question of what such a thing will do when it is finally set in motion. He matters because his creation turns abstract ambition into a physical force that the early arc can only begin to measure.

## In the story

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

The determined inventor of the flying machine, facing financial ruin and public ridicule.

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