# The Rover — Character guide

> Key figures in The Rover by Joseph Conrad.

- [Peyrol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/peyrol.md): Peyrol has come back to Escampobar Farm on the peninsula above a salt lagoon, a disinherited soul circling his birthplace like a seabird in the dusk. He schemes with a naval lieutenant over false dispatches meant to dece
- [Arlette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/arlette.md): Arlette drifts through Escampobar like a soul in pain, watched over by her stern Aunt Catherine and whispered about by neighbors who sense a strain of Saracen blood. For years she lived empty, her body cast off while her
- [Aunt Catherine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/aunt_catherine.md): Catherine has held Escampobar for a lifetime, preserving the upright carriage of a family rooted there for generations and facing alone the anguish of a forbidden love and terrors like the Judgment Day. She watches her n
- [Michel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/michel.md): Michel arrives at Escampobar after the death of his dog breaks up his old life on the lagoon shore, and Peyrol takes him on with a word and a pointed finger. He serves aboard the tartane with unquestioning loyalty, squat
- [Captain Vincent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/captain_vincent.md): Captain Vincent directs the coastal pursuit from the deck of the Amelia, dispatching Lieutenant Bolt ashore to watch the farm and reminding him he may become the very eyes of Lord Nelson's fleet. He spends anxious nights
- [Citizen Scevola Bron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/scevola_bron.md): Citizen Scevola carries the violent fervor of the Revolution into the quiet of Escampobar, a man whose past atrocities and present dread make him a walking reproach to everyone around him. Once chased from the village ch
- [Lieutenant Réal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/lieutenant_real.md): Réal moves through Escampobar as an officer on confidential business, pressing Peyrol about a vanished gunner and the movements of an English corvette. He is courteous, relentless, and impossible to read — Peyrol finds h
- [Mr. Bolt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/mr_bolt.md): Bolt is landed on the coast to watch a French port and signal the Amelia, a role Captain Vincent grandly calls being the actual eyes of Lord Nelson's fleet. The post isolates him among suspicious farmhands, and his hope 
- [Symons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/symons.md): Symons, battered and hiding under the foredeck of Peyrol's tartane, weighs captivity against the armed strangers who keep climbing aboard in the moonlight. His longing for the Amelia — even for the surly corporal — shows
- [The Abbé](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/the_abbe.md): A priest who appears in the story, possibly connected to Arlette's past.
- [Amelia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/amelia.md): A ship, likely English, central to the naval plot.
- [The Officer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rover_se/characters/the_officer.md): An unnamed officer, possibly French, involved in military matters.

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