# Alfred Brangwen — The Rainbow character guide

> Alfred Brangwen in The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Alfred, Mrs. Alfred Brangwen, the saturnine Alfred

**First appearance:** 0002-i-how-tom-brangwen-married-a-polish-lady

## Snapshot

Tom Brangwen's saturnine brother, a stern, bitter man whose many children and pinched fortunes shadow the Marsh's easier abundance.

## Who they are

Alfred belongs to the Brangwen generation that measures itself against the Marsh's ample, unhurried life, and finds his own portion wanting. Where Tom drifts and dreams, Alfred hardens — a father of several children, sharp-edged with resentment, carrying the family's slow-burning temper in its most acrid form. His sourness gives the early Brangwen world its necessary counterweight, showing what the same blood and soil can produce when expectation curdles into grievance.

## In the story

### [Wedding at the Marsh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rainbow_se/chapters/v-wedding-at-the-marsh)

Tom's brother, sardonic and mocking during the wedding feast.

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