The Survivors of the Chancellor · Character
Mr. Kear
A wealthy American passenger who hoards his valuables below deck while his ailing wife suffers above, treating the ship's crisis as an inconvenience to his property.
supporting
Also known as Mr. and Mrs. Kear, Kear
First appearance: ii
As a supporting figure in The Survivors of the Chancellor, Mr. Kear is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
A wealthy American petroleum merchant, vain and conceited, who struts about with a sense of his own importance.
Kear belongs to the Chancellor's first-class passengers, a man of means whose instinct in danger is to retreat to his cabin and pack his cherished possessions rather than face the deck. His cold neglect of Mrs. Kear, whose complaints he dismisses even as her condition grows genuinely pitiable, exposes a selfishness that contrasts sharply with Miss Herbey's tireless care. As the voyage darkens, his refusal to engage with anyone or anything beyond his own interests marks him as the kind of passenger whose wealth buys nothing when the sea turns hostile.
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See Mr. Kear in ii