Inside the story
Meet Peter Quint
Peter Quint is the dead former valet of the children’s uncle, a domineering and depraved man whose presence remains at Bly. As the governess begins her duties at the country house, she sees Quint’s malevolent ghost haunting the grounds and rooms, while the children are in his former sphere of influence.
On the page
A tall, erect, active bareheaded man with very red, close-curling hair and little queer red whiskers, clean-shaven otherwise; a pale, long face with straight good features, darker arched eyebrows, and sharp, small, very fixed eyes; wears smart clothes that are not his own and looks oddly like an actor, but never a gentleman.
