Mr. Williams Character Analysis

Mr. Williams is a preacher who lives near the Lincolnshire estate of Mr. B. Mr. Williams is in line to inherit a position from another elderly gentleman in the area, but to do so, he needs to keep Mr. B happy. This proves difficult when Mr. B involves Mr. Williams in his scheme to imprison Pamela. At first, Mr. B tells Pamela that Mr. B wants to marry her, but this was only an excuse to control her, and Mr. B gets angry when he suspects that Pamela might actually want to marry Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams feels sympathy for Pamela and wants to do whatever he can to help her without upsetting Mr. B, and so Mr. Williams and Pamela work out a system of exchanging secret messages with each other. When Mr. B finds out, he stages a robbery against Mr. Williams and then throws him in jail. After Pamela reforms Mr. B, however, he lets Mr. Williams go free, and he also lets him inherit the position he was originally going to get after all. Mr. Williams’s story mirrors Pamela’s, demonstrating how doing the right thing, even when it’s difficult, will ultimately lead to rewards.