# Roger Monk — Wolf Solent character guide

> Roger Monk in Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Roger, Redfern, Monk, young Redfern, another Redfern, poor young Redfern, our poor dear Redfern

**First appearance:** 0007-bar-sinister

## Snapshot

Urquhart's gigantic manservant, a former prizefighter in Sunday clothes, whose connection to the dead Redfern haunts Wolf's first days at King's Barton.

## Who they are

Monk serves as Urquhart's man and messenger, a physically imposing figure who moves through the household with a servant's discretion and a fighter's stillness. His aliases link him to the Redfern who died in the very room Wolf now occupies, a coincidence that Wolf cannot stop turning over in his mind. As the novel's early chapters unfold, Monk becomes a quiet emblem of the buried histories and uneasy inheritances that Wolf has walked into at King's Barton.

## Relationships

### [Mrs. Solent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wolf_solent_se/characters/mrs_solent)

_psychological_

Roger Monk is a figure from Mrs. Solent's past, representing a repressed, obsessive connection that haunts her present.

### [Mrs. Solent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wolf_solent_se/characters/mrs_solent)

_psychological_

Roger Monk is a figure from Mrs. Solent's past, representing a repressed, obsessive connection that haunts her present.

### [Mrs. Solent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wolf_solent_se/characters/mrs_solent)

_psychological_

Roger Monk is a figure from Mrs. Solent's past, representing a repressed, obsessive connection that haunts her present.

## In the story

### [Bar Sinister](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wolf_solent_se/chapters/bar-sinister)

Monk offers Lenty Cottage to Wolf and his mother, and Wolf finds his excessive neatness unsettling.

### [Home for Bastards](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wolf_solent_se/chapters/home-for-bastards)

Roger Monk drives Wolf and Mrs. Solent to Ramsgard, expressing discontent with Squire Urquhart.

### [Crooked Smoke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wolf_solent_se/chapters/crooked-smoke)

Roger Monk enters the library unannounced and later is mentioned in relation to the garden.

### [A Game of Bowls](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wolf_solent_se/chapters/a-game-of-bowls)

Invites Wolf to the bowling match; wins the game and celebrates with ale.

### [Lenty Pond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wolf_solent_se/chapters/lenty-pond)

Assists in the grave-digging, quarrels with Round, and is expected to return to Urquhart's service.

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