# The Innocents Abroad — Character guide

> Key figures in The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.

- [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/narrator.md): He boards the Quaker City expecting a picnic on a gigantic scale — flags, cannon, moonlight dancing, hobnobbing with kings — and appoints himself the party's chief noticer and debunker. His running tension is between gen
- [Jack](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/jack.md): Jack is the excursion's resident spectacle: pea jacket, tasseled red fez, and those immortal buckskin trousers, standing on the forecastle while his father's warning about refined company goes pointedly unheeded. He is g
- [The Doctor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/doctor.md): As the party's doctor he has license to look closely at bodies, punishments, and local habits, and he reports them with a surgeon's detachment and a humorist's timing — amputations without a wince, wives bundled back to 
- [Mr. Blucher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/mr_blucher.md): Young Mr. Blucher travels with the sincere desire to be a proper member of a refined company, which is precisely what makes him useful to his shipmates' humor. He takes advice at face value, follows instructions too lite
- [Dan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/dan.md): Dan rides with the narrator through the oaks of Bashan to the little mound at Dan, where a broad stream issues from a pool and instantly becomes an important source of the Jordan. He shares the party's growing discovery 
- [Young George](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/young_george.md): Young George moves through the tour as one of the narrator's young companions, but his real work in the text is as the vessel for a lurid medieval set piece: the letter boasting of Fulbert's simplicity, the stolen lesson
- [Judge Oliver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/judge_oliver.md): Judge Oliver belongs to the close-knit band of American excursionists whose personalities sharpen against one another as the voyage wears on. Where Twain bristles at foreign customs and petty indignities, the judge's mea
- [Count Luigi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/count_luigi.md): An Italian count encountered during the travels, a source of local color.
- [Ferguson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/ferguson.md): A guide or local figure in Italy, possibly confused with the painter Titian.
- [Wm. C. Grimes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/wm_c_grimes.md): A fellow traveler, possibly a writer or journalist on the excursion.
- [The Old Travelers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/old_travelers.md): Experienced travelers who offer advice and commentary to the group.
- [The Captain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/captain.md): The captain of the Quaker City ship.
- [The Brave Abbe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/brave_abbe.md): A French abbe who demonstrates a feat of bravery or skill.
- [The Good Lord Luigi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/good_lord_luigi.md): A local Italian lord or nobleman encountered.
- [Those Pompeiians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/those_pompeiians.md): Ancient residents of Pompeii, discussed in the ruins.
- [Three Hundred Happy Priests](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/three_hundred_priests.md): A group of priests observed in a humorous scene.
- [Count Leonardo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/count_leonardo.md): An Italian count, possibly a local nobleman.
- [Christopher Colombo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/christopher_colombo.md): A comedic Italian version of Christopher Columbus, possibly a local character.
- [Frezzolini](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/frezzolini.md): An opera singer or performer encountered.
- [Whitely](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/whitely.md): A fellow passenger or acquaintance on the trip.
- [Mr. Church](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/mr_church.md): A passenger or acquaintance on the Quaker City.
- [Captain Duncan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/captain_duncan.md): A ship captain or military officer encountered.
- [Dr. B.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/dr_b.md): A doctor among the passengers, possibly distinct from the main Doctor.
- [Mr. B.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/mr_b.md): A passenger referred to by initial.
- [Colonel J. Heron Foster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/colonel_j_heron_foster.md): A military officer or journalist on the trip.

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