Mr. Guest

Mr. Guest is a minor character of the novel. Mr. Guest is a clerk, who works for Utterson and discovers the similarity between Jekyll and Hyde’s handwriting.

The study of his life is graphology. He knows that personal qualities are directly related to movements in handwriting. The line of writing flows on paper, highlighting the processes taking place in the psyche. Experiments have shown that it isn’t the hand that writes, but the brain with the help of the hand. In the elements of the letter, everything has a diagnostic value: how the rows fall, the size and shape of the fields, the shape and size of the letters, how the lines are written out, and the distribution of pressure along the line, what form of letters, what elements are more common (arcs or angles).

Learning of graphology is impossible without knowledge of the basics. He distinguishes 9 main categories characterizing handwriting: size, pressure, slope, continuity, shape, movement, direction, organization, uniformity (or variability), the behavior of the line.