# Sir Agravaine — Short Fiction character guide

> Sir Agravaine in Short Fiction by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Sir Agravaine the Dolorous, Agravaine

**First appearance:** 0000-when-papa-swore-in-hindustani

## Snapshot

Short, snub-nosed, and hopelessly unknightly, Sir Agravaine the Dolorous aches for romance in a court that reserves its damsels and tournaments for handsomer men.

## Who they are

In King Arthur's Camelot, where muscle and beauty are currency, Agravaine possesses only brains, and brains are a drug on the market. He sits silent through feasts while Lancelot and the popular favourites claim every wandering damsel and every adventure, his pale mild eyes and receding chin marking him as the court's permanent also-ran. When a damsel in distress finally arrives and the assembled knights blanch at her plainness, Agravaine's long-cultivated resignation becomes the pivot on which the story's comedy of romance and rejection turns.

## In the story

### [Sir Agravaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/chapters/sir-agravaine)

The protagonist, a short, ugly, and weak knight who is deeply in love with Yvonne and eventually marries her.

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