Dr. Jeckel And Mr. Hyde

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The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one that would have the most intelligent person thinking out loud to himself, “What the heck is going on in this story?” The way the story flows is in many ways, like a suspense movie where the audience wonders what will happen next or who the killer might be, but the question that this reader needed an answer to was “Who in the world was Mr. Hyde?”
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde began with a lawyer, Mr. Utterson, talking with his cousin, Mr. Enfield, about a detestable looking man, Mr. Hyde, who had stomped on a young girl and thought nothing of it. Mr. Hyde was a man, that just by the mere sight of him, any human being would be disgusted. The author gave the reader no chance in ever liking Mr. Hyde because not only did he commit a heinous act when he stomped over this little girl and not look back, but at the same time, Mr. Hyde was a secretive man whose face the reader could not see, but when the reader did get a visual from the story, it was detestable because that is what the author described.
The author describes Mr. Hyde as “something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment” (Stevenson, p. 282).
With a description like that, would anyone want to be around a human being like that? More than likely the answer would be no.
So the description of Mr. Hyde early on turns the reader off to Mr. Hyde no matter what is said later on in the story.
The question remained, who was Mr. Edward Hyde?
It seemed to Mr. Utterson that only Dr. Henry Jekyll could answer t...