# Joanetti — Short Fiction character guide

> Joanetti in Short Fiction by Xavier de Maistre.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** poor Joanetti, XVI Joannetti, Monsieur Joannetti

**First appearance:** 0000-a-journey-round-my-room

## Who they are

After fifteen years of faithful service, he leaves with downcast eyes and a carter's wagon, turning a shared lifetime into a stranger's goodbye.

## Relationships

### [Rosalie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/characters/rosalie)

_romantic_

Joanetti and Rosalie share a romantic relationship, with frequent interactions suggesting intimacy or courtship.

### [James](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/characters/james)

_friendship_

James and Joanetti are friends or allies, possibly sharing a common goal or bond.

## In the story

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xii)

Recalled as a friend who married and left, contributing to the narrator's sense of loss.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xiv)

The narrator's faithful servant who silently reproaches his idleness and guides his soul during its travels.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xv)

Joannetti helps clean the portrait and observes that it seems to watch him from every angle, prompting the narrator's philosophical reflection.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xvi)

Joannetti remains in an attitude of astonishment after the narrator's nonsensical explanation about plane surfaces and rays of light.

### [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xviii)

Stands motionless in astonishment, then delicately withdraws after the narrator ends his explanation abruptly.

### [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xix)

The servant who silently bears the narrator's unjust anger and is owed wages.

### [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xxviii)

Joannetti gives his leftover dinner to the beggar James, demonstrating generosity.

### [XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xxxii)

The narrator commands Joannetti to shut the door and windows, leave his room, and keep away.

### [XXXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xxxiii)

The narrator implores Joannetti to stay, addressing him as 'my good fellow'.

### [XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xxxix)

Enters the room to make coffee, interrupting the quarrel between the narrator's soul and body.

### [XL](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xl)

Mentioned as the one whose noise with the coffeepot and appearance of a cup of cream made a vivid impression on the narrator.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as 'poor Joanetti' in the context of the narrator's past, though not directly appearing in this chapter.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/iii)

The narrator's faithful servant of fifteen years, who marries and leaves his service to settle at Asti.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/v)

Mentioned as the subject of the previous story, now concluded.

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