# Alfred Jingle — The Pickwick Papers character guide > Alfred Jingle in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** Mr. Jingle, Jingle, Mr. Alfred Jingle, Alfred Jingle **First appearance:** 0002-i ## Snapshot A staccato-talking strolling player and shameless adventurer whose charm and audacity make him the Pickwickians' most persistent and entertaining nemesis. ## Who they are Jingle bursts into the Pickwickians' world as a dashing stranger whose clipped, telegraphic speech and easy confidence win instant trust. He is a con man by instinct, cadging dinners, engineering elopements, and vanishing before consequences land, and his schemes repeatedly humiliate the credulous Pickwick. As the recurring agent of chaos in the early and middle chapters, he turns the club's earnest investigations into lessons in worldly deception. ## Relationships ### [Samuel Pickwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/characters/samuel_pickwick) _rivalry_ Alfred Jingle is a charming but unscrupulous conman who repeatedly deceives and antagonizes Pickwick. ### [Samuel Pickwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/characters/samuel_pickwick) _rivalry_ Alfred Jingle is a charming but unscrupulous conman who repeatedly deceives and antagonizes Pickwick. ### [Samuel Pickwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/characters/samuel_pickwick) _rivalry_ Alfred Jingle is a charming but unscrupulous conman who repeatedly deceives and antagonizes Pickwick. ## In the story ### [The Pickwick Papers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/the-pickwick-papers) A mysterious and manipulative figure who causes trouble for the Pickwickians, including the elopement attempt. ### [The First Day's Journey, and the First Evening's Adventures; with Their Consequences](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/ii) The loquacious stranger who rescues Pickwick from the cabman, joins the party for dinner, tells disjointed stories about Spain, a dog, and the Revolution of July, and travels with them to Rochester. ### [A New Acquaintance—The Stroller's Tale—A Disagreeable Interruption, and an Unpleasant Encounter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/iii) The green-coated stranger who introduces Dismal Jemmy and later helps calm Mr. Pickwick with brandy-and-water. ### [How Mr. Winkle, instead of shooting at the pigeon and killing the crow, shot at the crow and wounded the pigeon; how the Dingley Dell cricket club played All-Muggleton, and how All-Muggleton dined at the Dingley Dell expense; with other interesting and instructive matters.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/vii) Appears at the cricket match, enthusiastically greeting the Pickwickians. ### [Chapter VIII: Strongly illustrative of the position, that the course of true love is not a railway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/viii) Deceives both Tupman and Rachael, convincing her of Tupman's treachery and positioning himself as her suitor while borrowing money from Tupman. ### [Chapter IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/ix) Flees with Rachael Wardle, taunts the pursuers after the crash. ### [The Rescue of Rachael Wardle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/x) The antagonist who attempts to elope with Rachael Wardle; accepts a bribe of one hundred and twenty pounds to abandon her. ### [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xvi) Mentioned as the mastermind behind the elopement plot, though not present in the scene. ### [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xx) Mentioned as the slim, tall man with 'the gift o' the gab' who, along with Job Trotter, is staying in Ipswich. ### [Chapter XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxv) Unmasked as Captain Fitz-Marshall, he is expelled from Mr. Nupkins' house with Job Trotter. ### [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xlii) Found in tattered clothes on the poor side of the Fleet, brooding over the fire, reduced to misery and hunger. ### [Chapter XLV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xlv) Mr. Pickwick finds Jingle in a subdued state, speaks with him earnestly, and advises him to rest and regain his health. ### [XLVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xlvii) Bids farewell to Mr. Pickwick at the prison; receives a promise of communication from Perker. ### [LIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/liii) Jingle and Job Trotter take their leave after receiving assistance from Pickwick and Perker. ### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/endnotes) Noted for his prophetic imagination regarding the 1830 Revolution. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/characters/alfred_jingle - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/characters