# The Ploughman — The Windfairies character guide

> The Ploughman in The Windfairies by Mary De Morgan.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the ploughman

**First appearance:** 0010-the-ploughman-and-the-gnome

## Snapshot

A poor young ploughman whose horses refuse to move until a tiny black gnome grows in his hand and asks to lodge with him.

## Who they are

Alone in his field, the ploughman is stopped by a voice from the earth and finds a creature like a black lizard that swells into a foot-high woman with an india-rubber face. She detests women, wants no trouble, and demands only the best of everything that enters his house. His plain decency and her strange terms set up a household bargain that tests what hospitality really costs.

## Relationships

### [The Potter's Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_potters_wife)

_rivalry_

A tense, jealous rivalry as the Ploughman resents her affair with the Gipsy and seeks to expose or control her.

### [The Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_wife)

_family_

A strained marital relationship, with the Ploughman often distant and the Wife feeling neglected and lonely.

### [Hulda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/hulda)

_psychological_

Hulda exerts a quiet, manipulative influence over the Ploughman, exploiting his guilt and loneliness for her own ends.

### [The Gipsy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_gipsy)

_rivalry_

A direct, hostile rivalry fueled by the Gipsy's affair with the Ploughman's wife, leading to threats and confrontations.

### [The Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_wife)

_family_

A strained marital relationship, with the Ploughman often distant and the Wife feeling neglected and lonely.

### [The Gipsy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_gipsy)

_rivalry_

A direct, hostile rivalry fueled by the Gipsy's affair with the Ploughman's wife, leading to threats and confrontations.

### [The Potter's Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_potters_wife)

_rivalry_

A tense, jealous rivalry as the Ploughman resents her affair with the Gipsy and seeks to expose or control her.

### [Hulda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/hulda)

_psychological_

Hulda exerts a quiet, manipulative influence over the Ploughman, exploiting his guilt and loneliness for her own ends.

### [The Potter's Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_potters_wife)

_rivalry_

A tense, jealous rivalry as the Ploughman resents her affair with the Gipsy and seeks to expose or control her.

### [Hulda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/hulda)

_psychological_

Hulda exerts a quiet, manipulative influence over the Ploughman, exploiting his guilt and loneliness for her own ends.

### [The Gipsy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_gipsy)

_rivalry_

A direct, hostile rivalry fueled by the Gipsy's affair with the Ploughman's wife, leading to threats and confrontations.

## In the story

### [The Gipsy's Cup](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/the-gipsy-s-cup)

Not directly mentioned; no match in excerpts.

### [The Ploughman and the Gnome](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/the-ploughman-and-the-gnome)

The protagonist who makes a pact with a gnome for wealth, later struggles to meet its escalating demands.

## Links

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