Dr Watson Character Traits

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The Birth of Dr. Watson’s Character Dr. Watson was an extremely precise character that Arthur Conan Doyle used throughout the story of the Hound of the Baskervilles. Mr. Doyle places a character like Dr. Watson in the story because it provides a foil character to Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle uses Dr. Watson’s speech, his inner thoughts, and his actions to deeply develop this character throughout the story. Dr. Watson would not be the same character he is at the end of the book if Arthur Doyle did not include the part where Dr. Watson says what he thinks the characteristics of the owner of the stick are. Dr. Watson thinks that the “C.C.H on the stick means something hunt” (Watson 3), but in the end, we find out by Sherlock Holmes that Dr. Watson is completely incorrect. “I would suggest, for example, that a presentation to a doctor is more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt, and that when the initials ‘C.C’ are placed before that hospital the words ‘Charing Cross” very naturally suggest themselves”(Sherlock 3). With this statement I can conclude, most…show more content…
Watson to develop him, he also uses his inner thoughts to show who the real and true Dr. Watson is supposed to be. “The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one’s soul, it’s vastness, and also its grim charm”(Watson 123). If this is what Dr. Watson thinks, I am pretty sure he believes that the moor and the legend of the hound is in fact not a myth. “There are one maid, an old manservant, the sister, and the brother, the latter not a very strong man. They would be helpless in the hands of a desperate fellow like this Notting Hill criminal, if he could once affect an entrance” (Watson 125). If he can say these words about the Stapletons, Dr. Watson feels as though they are worthless in adversity, they don’t know how to defend themselves, and if they ever had to fight for their lives, they would end up
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