Hound of Baskervilles Characters

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Throughout The Hound of The Baskervilles, one of the most famous stories out of the Sherlock Holmes collection written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the development of the major characters stays almost static. Not much change is gone through by the major character, being the extremely wise and intelligent Sherlock Holmes. Other people come in and out of the story but have no real substance in the plot. Cracking mysteries by looking for clues with everyone thing that comes in his way, Holmes never sees anything for just what they are. Instead, being the keen and perceptive man that he is, he looks deeper than the surface for any evidence that stands out to help him to solve a mystery. He lacks a sense of humor or any other sort of personality of that matter. He is all business and has no time for anything else, not a girlfriend or wife, not even many friends at all. Holmes only has one rapport, and that is his trusty partner Watson who, it seems, is only there for his company. Holmes character is established at the very start of the novel and stays the same throughout.

From beginning to end, Holmes is the same man. A man of mystery, a man who could take a piece of grass and tell how old it

There is not much to the character of Sherlock Holmes, a detective with a unique knack to solving mysteries. A perceptive and intelligent man with no other life than that of his work of duty, he has no outside life and so does not experience much true pleasure other than finding clues. Nothing gets by him without being scrutinized to the minute detail of which it holds. No jokes are told by the gumshoe as he is all work. Then once put on a case, he never strays from his goals and endeavors to complete his task leaving no loose ends. This is a man who amazes everyone, sometimes even himself.

is an example of how conclusions come so simple to Holmes.

To make these conclusions, he either looks for clues on his own or barrage other with questions to figure out what he is looking for to put the pieces together. Many times he is relentless with his questions. For example when a man, Dr. Mortimer came to Holmes with a murder mystery, Holmes wanted to know all he could find out before he started. "What sort of night was it?" (34), "Is there anything between the hedges and the walk?" (34), and "And what marks did you see by the wicket-gate?" (35) are the precise questions that he asks. If he cannot find all the information he wants, he finds them out for himself with his inquisitive mind. This is shown when a man walked into his office holding a letter and just by looking at the letter for a second, Holmes knew how old it

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