Mr. Ramsey Character Analysis

Mr. Ramsey is one of the English masters at the narrator’s school and the advisor to the English club. When Dean Makepeace leaves the school, Mr. Ramsey helps oversee the narrator’s expulsion: he drives him to the train station and gives him a pack of cigarettes before he leaves. Years later, Mr. Ramsey becomes the headmaster of the school and invites the narrator back as a visiting writer. He assures the narrator that he belongs in the company of the other great writers at the school and also tells the full story of Dean Makepeace leaving the school on the same day that the narrator was expelled.