# Peter Rabbit — Short Fiction character guide

> Peter Rabbit in Short Fiction by Beatrix Potter.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Peter, the bad rabbit, the good rabbit

**First appearance:** 0000-the-tale-of-peter-rabbit

## Snapshot

The naughty rabbit who squeezes under Mr. McGregor's gate against his mother's warning, trading a morning of blackberrying for a frantic flight through the garden.

## Who they are

Peter is one of four rabbit children living in a sandbank under a fir-tree, and the only one who ignores Mrs. Rabbit's order to stay out of Mr. McGregor's garden — where his father, she reminds them, ended up in a pie. His appetite and curiosity carry him from lettuces to radishes to a face-to-face meeting with the gardener himself, and his new blue jacket with brass buttons proves his undoing when it snags on a gooseberry net. His terror, tears, and narrow escapes make him the reader's anxious companion through every corner of the garden.

## In the story

### [The Tale of Peter Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-peter-rabbit)

Disobeys his mother and enters Mr. McGregor's garden, is chased, loses his clothes, and escapes.

### [The Tailor of Gloucester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tailor-of-gloucester)

Not present in this chapter.

### [The Tale of Benjamin Bunny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-benjamin-bunny)

Still recovering from his earlier ordeal in the garden; accompanies Benjamin but is nervous and eager to leave.

### [The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-mrs-tiggy-winkle)

One of the animals who meets Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle on the path to receive his clean blue jacket.

### [The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-story-of-a-fierce-bad-rabbit)

The fierce bad rabbit who steals the carrot and scratches the good rabbit.

### [The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-the-flopsy-bunnies)

Flopsy's brother who keeps a nursery garden; sometimes lends cabbages to Benjamin.

### [The Tale of Mr. Tod](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-mr-tod)

Benjamin's companion who helps dig the tunnel and keeps watch during the rescue attempt.

### [List of Illustrations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/list-of-illustrations)

Appears in multiple illustrations: being tucked into bed, escaping Mr. McGregor, losing his clothes, and returning home.

## Links

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