Thackeray peoples his novel with many colorful secondary characters. Were any especially well drawn or true to life? Which did you find most amusing, pathetic, or loathsome? Use quotations for support.
I think that the small character that I found very amusing was Mrs. Major O'Dowd. She has a fairly small part but I find it funny how she is always trying to find a husband for her sister. She tries several times to marry her off. At one point she thinks that George Osborne would be a great match for her sister but when she finds out that he is already engaged she writes her sister Glorvina. Thackeray says, "the story was over the regiment in half an hour; and that very evening Mrs. Major O'Dowd wrote off to her sister Glorvina at O'Dowdstown not to hurry from Dublin,-you Osborne being prematurely engaged already"(132).
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I think that the small character that I found very amusing was Mrs. Major O'Dowd. She has a fairly small part but I find it funny how she is always trying to find a husband for her sister. She tries several times to marry her off. At one point she thinks that George Osborne would be a great match for her sister but when she finds out that he is already engaged she writes her sister Glorvina. Thackeray says, "the story was over the regiment in half an hour; and that very evening Mrs. Major O'Dowd wrote off to her sister Glorvina at O'Dowdstown not to hurry from Dublin,-you Osborne being prematurely engaged already"(132).
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