What kind of person is Frederick Clegg? Describe and analyse his
personality and his different sides as deeply as possible.
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Frederick is a city clerk and amateur entomologist who loves to collect butterflies. He is an antisocial and awkward young man in his mid-20s. Because Clegg lost his parents at an early age (his father died in a drunk driving accident when he was two and his mother abandoned him) he was raised by his Aunt Annie and grew up alongside Annie's daughter, his disabled cousin Mabel. Yet he eventually wins a prize of over 70,000 pounds in a football (soccer) pool, and uses this money to buy a country house two hours away from London, where he sets up the basement to be used as a cell for a captive. Clegg then travels in London, stalks a beautiful art student named Miranda Grey, captures her, and takes her back to his house. He tries, and fails, to make her fall in love with him. Yet he succeeds in lying about his name to Miranda; she thinks he is called Ferdinand.
