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Lord Bullingdon

Lady Lyndon's son by her first marriage, a swarthy, gawky boy who grows into Barry's most implacable enemy and the legal heir to everything Barry covets.

supporting

Also known as young Lord Bullingdon, little Lord Bullingdon, Bullingdon, Viscount Bullingdon, Master Bullingdon

First appearance: I Appear as an Ornament of English Society

As a supporting figure in The Luck of Barry Lyndon, Lord Bullingdon is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

The melancholy, neglected son of Sir Charles and Lady Lyndon, seen only briefly at his mother's levée for Latin and history questions.
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Young Bullingdon watches his mother's new husband spend her income, bully her into signing away her property, and parade his infidelities, and he learns to hate with patience. Barry dismisses him as a scoundrel and a plague, but the boy holds the one card that cannot be taken from him: the inheritance. His silent, accumulating resentment is the counterweight to Barry's bluster, and the reader senses early that the stepson will outlast the adventurer.

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38 connections

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LLLady LyndonBLBarry LyndonNBNora BradyMBMrs. BradySCSir Charles Ly…LBLord Bullingdon

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  • Family
  • Other

Character groups

  • Central characters and rivals
  • Protagonist
  • Irish family and first love

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Falling action.

SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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