# V. Bindon — Short Fiction character guide

> V. Bindon in Short Fiction by H. G. Wells.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** V, Bindon

**First appearance:** 0046-a-story-of-the-days-to-come

## Snapshot

A wealthy, vain shareholder in the flying stages of a future London, whose sentimental pursuit of a young woman masks a ruthless and calculating heart.

## Who they are

Bindon moves through the giant city as a man of influence and fashion, changing costumes and pneumatic silhouettes as easily as moods, and courting Elizabeth Mwres with the confidence of a man who believes he can buy anything. His sentimental self-image sits uneasily beside his cold business instincts and his failing health, and his rivalry with the worthless Denton exposes how little he understands the woman he wants. His interventions in the lives of others set the story's social machinery turning, and his vanity makes him a target for the very forces he thinks he controls.

## In the story

### [A Story of the Days to Come](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/a-story-of-the-days-to-come)

An antagonist who plots revenge against Elizabeth, representing the oppressive upper class.

### [I: The Cure for Love](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/i-the-cure-for-love)

The man chosen by Mwres as a suitable husband for Elizabeth. He is described as a little man in foolish raiment with pneumatic horns, accompanying Elizabeth when Denton sees her.

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

Mentioned as having passed out of Denton's range; part of the past life Denton reflects on.

### [V: Bindon Intervenes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/v-bindon-intervenes)

Bindon is the central figure of the chapter, driven by wounded vanity and obsessive passion for Elizabeth. He schemes to destroy Denton and force Elizabeth into divorce.

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