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Young Wilf is the first person to join Harold on his pilgrimage to Queenie. Though well-intentioned and religious, Wilf is prone to moodiness, theft, and drunkenness. Rich frequently questions Wilf’s integrity, and the boy ends up deserting the group and selling his story to the media. Wilf reminds Harold strongly of David.
Wilf Quotes in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry quotes below are all either spoken by Wilf or refer to Wilf. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 22 Quotes
He thought back to the night he had slept in the barn near Stroud. No one knew the real truth about why he was walking to Queenie. They had made assumptions. They thought it was a love story, or a miracle, or an act of beauty, or even bravery, but it was none of those things. The discrepancy between what he knew and what other people believed frightened him. It also made him feel, as he looked back at the camp, that even in the midst of them he was unknown. The fire was a glow of light in the blackness. Voices and laughter came to him, and they were all strangers.
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Wilf Character Timeline in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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Chapter 21
...night. The next morning, a young man calls his name across the road. The boy, Wilf, claims he is also a pilgrim who wants to save Queenie Hennessy. He has a...
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...him about the publicist. The gardening woman invites her friends, who toast Queenie’s health. Unlike Wilf, Harold feels separate from the others and longs to slip away. Wilf reports that the...
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Wilf prays before bed. The boy is frightened at night, and Harold comforts him. He wonders...
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Chapter 24
...Harold cannot picture his journey’s end. He calls her often from the road. Rich accuses Wilf of stealing again, and Harold worries he is right. Like David, the boy is unreliable...
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Harold feels he let Wilf down. He tells Kate that Wilf reminded him of David, who was too clever and...
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