ABSTRACT
Henry Morton and Old Mortality will reappear in a later section of this book. At this point, however, it is worth noting that some critics have found him too colourless and deficient in stature to be a convincing embodiment of the rational values that he is supposed to represent. But if he is in no sense a commanding figure, we have to ask ourselves whether it was any part of Scott's intention to make him one. Reason, after all, is rarely spectacular.
