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John is a footman who carries most of Pamela’s letters back to her mother and father in the first part of the book. Although Pamela feels a lot of gratitude toward John for helping her stay connected to her parents, John is actually helping Mr. B spy on her by reading and even failing to deliver some of her letters. John is an example of a good man who gets corrupted due to his master’s influence, and so after Pamela helps reform Mr. B, John also gets redemption.
John Quotes in Pamela
The Pamela quotes below are all either spoken by John or refer to John. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Letter 5 Quotes
JOHN being to go your way, I am willing to write, because he is so willing to carry any thing for me. He says it does him good at his Heart to see you both, and to hear you talk. He says you are both so sensible, and so honest, that he always learns something from you to the Purpose.
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John Character Timeline in Pamela
The timeline below shows where the character John appears in Pamela. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Letter 1
...to go home to live with her parents. She sends her parents four guineas with John (the footman who delivers her letters), part of her wages from her new master, so...
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Letter 5
Pamela writes to her mother and father that she will keep sending letters because John seems to like visiting with them so much when he delivers them. She has no...
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Letter 20
...that the recent delay in her letters is because Mr. B has sent the footman John to Lady Davers’s house. She continues her story from her last conversation with Mrs. Jervis....
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Letter 23
...doesn’t know how she’ll get home, but she supposes maybe someday she could ride with John.
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Letter 28
In her letter to her father and mother, Pamela writes that she heard from John that they cried over her last letter. She tells them about how Mr. B has...
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Letter 30
...As she ends the letter, Pamela says she still plans to leave soon, but because John is headed to her mother and father right now, she’ll put send the letter with...
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Letter 32
...though she isn’t sure how her writing will get to them, since she doesn’t have John to carry her letters. She begins telling the story of the Thursday she on which...
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The Journal
...B, and Pamela doesn’t want to force him to take that risk. Later that day, John comes, and Pamela is happy to see him (since she still doesn’t know he’s been...
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MONDAY. Pamela hopes to speak with John the next time he comes, but Mrs. Jewkes makes sure that John just drops off...
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...safe. On the other hand, she’s less glad to hear that Mr. B has fired John for his role in helping Pamela, with Mrs. Jervis also in trouble.
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The Journal (continued)
...She also happily reunites with Mr. Longman and Mr. Jonathan. Finally, she goes to see John, who apologizes for everything he did to Pamela earlier.
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...the money she promised to the servants, including Mrs. Jervis, Mr. Jonathan, Mr. Longman, and John, all of whom appreciate it and praise Pamela. Pamela excuses herself and goes to the...
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...new clothes. Mr. B wants to present her to the world next Sunday. Pamela sends John to carry some of her new journal pages to her mother and father, asking them...
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...meets some of Mr. B’s gentlemen friends at dinner. They all approve of her. Later, John brings Pamela a letter from her father. Pamela’s father writes that he’ll accept the farm...
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