Gulley Jimson

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Gulley Jimson is a disreputable, obsessive, and eccentric aging painter who serves as the roguish antihero of Joyce Cary’s comic novel "The Horse’s Mouth."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf antihero
fictional character
literary character
protagonist
adaptationNote portrayed by Alec Guinness in the 1958 film adaptation of The Horse’s Mouth
appearsIn The Horse’s Mouth NERFINISHED
appearsInSeries The First Trilogy NERFINISHED
artForm painting
associatedWith bohemian London art scene
characterTrait aging
disreputable
eccentric
obsessive
characterType roguish antihero
creator Joyce Cary NERFINISHED
genreContext comic novel
literaryFunction satire of the art world
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
medium oil painting
moralAlignment morally ambiguous
narrativeRole first-person narrator
nationalityInFiction British
notableWorkInFiction large murals
occupation painter
personality cynical
manipulative
witty
relationshipToArt obsessively devoted
setting London, England
surface form: London
socialStatus impoverished
themeAssociation art and obsession
bohemian life
moral ambiguity

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The Horse’s Mouth mainCharacter Gulley Jimson