Book Boyfriends: John Gabriel Utterson
Alexis at Reflections of a Bookaholic posed an excellent question a few weeks ago. She asked her readers if they had a favorite book boyfriend. Actually I do. Just one. It"s the attorney Gabriel John Utterson from Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . Utterson is Jekyll's friend and attorney. He knows there is something going on with Jekyll, but he thinks Jekyll is being blackmailed by Hyde. Utterson continually helps people who are in trouble. He seems to genuinely like being helpful and he gets a somewhat salacious thrill hearing about the naughty predicaments people get themselves into. I think Utterson may have been in some kind of sinful trouble in the past. Utterson changed his ways, but he misses his old life. He does have strong sense of duty. Every Sunday he takes a walk with his relative Enfield not because he likes it, but because it is the right thi...