ParsonAdams: CharacterAnalysis
Although Fielding's first novel bears the title � Joseph Andrews� , its main interest centers in Parson Adams . The immense popularity enjoyed by the novel can be fully attributed to him. In fact , it is difficult to imagine even the existence of this novel without the endearing figure of the absent�minded Parson Adams. �If he is not the real hero of the book� , s ays Dobson , �he is undoubtedly the character whose fortunes the reader follows with the closest interest. � Dudden remarks : �The agreeable youngman, Joseph may be the centre of plot; but it is the �old foolish parson� that is the centre of interest.� Adams is one of the most original creations; Fielding himself claims that he is �not to be found in any book now extant� . Fielding explains in his preface that he has made Adams a clergyman "since no other office could have given him so many opportunities of displaying his worthy inclin...