# Gil-Martin — The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner character guide

> Gil-Martin in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Gil

**First appearance:** 0003-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-sinner-written-by-himself

## Snapshot

A stranger of shifting face and unnerving intimacy who attaches himself to Robert Wringhim, flattering every dark impulse as divine purpose.

## Who they are

Gil-Martin enters Robert's life as a companion who seems to know him before being introduced, matching his religious fervour with an unsettling eagerness to approve it. He can resemble whomever he chooses, and his counsel always bends toward certainty, election, and the removal of obstacles. Whether he is devil, delusion, or something stranger, his hold over Robert drives the middle of the book toward acts the reader dreads and cannot look away from.

## Relationships

### [Master Whigham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_private_memoirs_and_confessions_of_a_justifi_se/characters/master_whigham)

_psychological_

Sinister manipulator and victim, with Gil-Martin corrupting and controlling the schoolmaster Whigham.

## In the story

### [The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_private_memoirs_and_confessions_of_a_justifi_se/chapters/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner)

Robert's mysterious double who appears to be a supernatural tempter, encouraging his worst impulses and leading him to commit crimes.

### [Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Sinner: Written by Himself](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_private_memoirs_and_confessions_of_a_justifi_se/chapters/private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-sinner-written-by-himself)

Mysterious stranger who becomes Robert's constant companion and influences his thoughts and actions.

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