# Redpenny — The Doctor’s Dilemma character guide

> Redpenny in The Doctor’s Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** surname Redpenny, Emmy, Redpenny Distracted, Redpenny Emmy, Redpenny Appearing, Redpenny Old Paddy Cullen

**First appearance:** 0003-act-i

## Snapshot

Ridgeon's unpaid-in-spirit apprentice, a wide-eyed medical student who answers letters, tends test tubes, and absorbs a famous doctor's habits.

## Who they are

Redpenny is the consulting-room's factotum — half laboratory assistant, half secretary — trading his labor for the informal education of proximity to a leader of the profession. His credulous, hasty friendliness and his hair still in transition from boy to doctor make him an eager witness to the egos and quarrels that pass through Ridgeon's door. He matters as the story's fresh-eyed observer, the one who still believes in the men he serves.

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