Wilkins Micawber

A perpetually optimistic and eloquent, but financially inept, friend of David.

From "David Copperfield" by Dickens, Charles

Core Belief

"Despite constant financial hardship, maintaining hope and a positive outlook is essential, and that something beneficial is always on the horizon."

Worldview

Mr. Micawber sees the world as a stage on which he plays a noble role, even in the face of adversity. He believes in the power of rhetoric and self-expression, and that even the humblest individual can find dignity and meaning in life through eloquence and good humor.

Personality

Grandiloquent, improvident, and perpetually in debt, Mr. Micawber is a memorable character whose optimism and faith that 'something will turn up' is both endearing and comical. He is generous and kind-hearted, despite his financial woes.

In Their Own Words

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

"I have nothing to bestow but advice. Still my advice is so far worth taking, that--in short, that I have never taken it myself."

"My dear Copperfield, to have beneath our roof, under existing circumstances, a mind like that which gleams--if I may be allowed the expression--which gleams--in your friend Traddles, is an unspeakable comfort."