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  • sign of 4 characters
    • Sherlock holmes.
      • considered a genius in his field and thrives on have top solve difficult cases.
        • 'my mind...rebels at stagnation. give me problems, give me work.'
          • suggests holmes is easily bored and is only happy when he has a case to solve.
          • highly intelligent detective.
            • 'calculationg machine.'
      • highly intelligent detective.
        • 'calculationg machine.'
      • has little time for emotions or feelings.
        • 'there is something positively inhumane about you sometimes.'
    • Dr watson
      • he is a romantic.
        • because I love you, mary, as trul;y as ever a man loved a woman.
      • watson is observant.
        • 'extraordinary genius for minutiae'
          • shows that as well as Holmesm,  he too re-accounts the events of the case in detail.
      • plays a large role in the subplot.
        • the golden barrier is gone between us.
      • he is humble.
        • 'what was i, an army surgeon with a weak leg and a banker-account, that i should dare to think of such things?'
    • athelney jones
      • shows how poor the police force was.
        • 'heavy steps and the clamor of loud voies were audible from below, and the hall door shut with a loud crash'
          • also shows he is clumsy
      • suspisious of holmes' methods
        • 'stern facts here,-no room for theories.'
      • holmes thinks he is foolish.
        • 'there are no fools so troublesome as those with some wit.
    • thadeus sholto
      • he is portrayed as an unusual character due to his appearance and lifestyle.
        • 'pray step into my little sanctum...an oasis of art in the howling desert of south london.'
      • appears as a good & fair hearted character.
        • 'it would have been such bad taste to have treated a young lady in so scurvy a fashion.'
      • he is very proud of his art collection.
        • 'i call myself a patron of the arts.'
      • his taste for the 'aesthetic' extends to his elaborate form of dress.
        • 'very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs.
    • mary morston
      • plays a large role in the subplot.
        • the golden barrier is gone between us.
      • rejects the corrupting influence of the treasure.
        • 'the treasure is lost."said miss morston calmly.
      • conforms to angel of the house.
        • 'her angelic features'
      • respected by holmes
        • 'you are certainly a model client'
    • Jonathan small
      • 'wooden legged man'
      • he is loyal to his 'friends'
        • 'if I cant have the treasure, no one else can'
          • also shows he is greedy.
      • 'life or death'
        • shows he is sympathetic.
      • he insists that the treasure is rightfully his.
        • 'if I cant have the treasure, no one else can'
          • also shows he is greedy.
    • tonga
      • presents the racial predjusism of more educated characters like Watson.
        • 'beside him lay a dark mass'
      • portrayed as something to be scared of.
        • 'the unhallowed dwarf with his hideous face  and his strong yellow teeth gnashing at us in the light of our lantern.'
      • loyal to Small.
        • 'he took a kind of fancy to me...and this made me all the fonder of me.'
          • has links to a dog because they are loyal and 'clingy'

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