# Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town — Character guide

> Key figures in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock.

- [Mr. Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/mr_smith.md): Mr. Smith presides over the Mariposa House, where commercial travellers, local drinkers, and the town's gossip all pass through his doors. He is a man of expansive gestures and Florida water, forever pressing drinks on g
- [Peter Pupkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/peter_pupkin.md): Pupkin is the junior teller at the Exchange Bank, a Maritime transplant with a good salary and a hopeless passion for the judge's daughter. He paddles Zena across the lake, buys her ice cream and neckties, and rehearses 
- [Zena Pepperleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/zena_pepperleigh.md): Zena sits on the judge's piazza reading novels, dreaming of armoured knights and Algerian corsairs, and half-unconsciously collecting suitors. She is beautiful, bookish, and given to a sweet resignation that drives Pupki
- [Judge Pepperleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/judge_pepperleigh.md): Judge Pepperleigh presides over the Mariposa court with a grave dignity and a fierce pride in his soldier son Neil, whose picture hangs beside the Fathers of Confederation. He is a man of rigid honour and tender domestic
- [Jefferson Thorpe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/jefferson_thorpe.md): Jeff shaves the commercial travellers and the bank manager in his little shop across from Smith's Hotel, a fixture of Mariposa's morning routine. When the Cobalt and Porcupine mining boom arrives, he becomes the town's u
- [Henry Mullins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/henry_mullins.md): Mullins manages the Exchange Bank and moves through the town's commercial and civic life with a certain social quickness. He is the man who must break difficult news to Dean Drone and who finds himself at the centre of t
- [John Henry Bagshaw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/john_henry_bagshaw.md): Bagshaw is one of the town's leading political figures, throwing himself into the election campaign with the vigor of a man who believes Mariposa's future hinges on his victory. His ambition and public spirit are genuine
- [Rev. Dean Drone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/rev_dean_drone.md): Dean Drone has served the Church of England in Mariposa for four decades, spending his afternoons beneath the plum trees with Theocritus and his evenings wrestling with sermons he can never quite finish. He is writing a 
- [Edward Drone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/edward_drone.md): Edward Drone is the son of Dean Drone and a clergyman in his own right, a young man whose sensitivity to the world's accidents—mining disasters, aeroplanes, gasoline—has left him more nervous than his father's generation
- [Mr. Gingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/mr_gingham.md): Mr. Gingham runs the local undertaking business, but his real passion is verse, and his advertisements for funerals betray a poet who could have written on death more attractively than Bryant's Thanatopsis. He is a promi
- [Dr. Gallagher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/dr_gallagher.md): The local physician who attends to the town's medical needs.
- [Mallory Tompkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/mallory_tompkins.md): A local businessman and occasional participant in town events.
- [Billy Rawson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/billy_rawson.md): A local character known for his involvement in various town activities.
- [Nivens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/nivens.md): A minor figure in the Mariposa community.
- [George Duff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/george_duff.md): A local resident who appears in the background of town life.
- [Myra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/myra.md): A young woman in Mariposa, possibly a servant or local girl.
- [Peter Glover](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/peter_glover.md): A minor character in the Mariposa social scene.
- [Alf Trelawney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/alf_trelawney.md): A local figure who appears in the election and social events.
- [Neil Pepperleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/neil_pepperleigh.md): The son of Judge Pepperleigh and brother of Zena.
- [Gillis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/gillis.md): A minor character, possibly a workman or sailor on the lake.
- [Lawyer Macartney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/lawyer_macartney.md): The local lawyer who handles legal matters in Mariposa.
- [Jim Eliot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/jim_eliot.md): A local resident mentioned in passing during town events.
- [Christie Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/christie_johnson.md): A minor character in the Mariposa community.
- [Miss Lawson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/miss_lawson.md): A young woman who appears in social contexts in town.
- [Alf McNichol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/alf_mcnichol.md): A local man who participates in town activities.
- [Young Fizzlechip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/young_fizzlechip.md): A young man who appears briefly in the election campaign.
- [Joe Milligan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/joe_milligan.md): A local resident mentioned in the context of town events.
- [Mrs. Pepperleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/mrs_pepperleigh.md): The wife of Judge Pepperleigh and mother of Zena and Neil.
- [Morgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sunshine_sketches_of_a_little_town_se/characters/morgan.md): A minor character, possibly a businessman or visitor.

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