In the second chapter of his appearance, it is shown (when talking to himself) that he cares less for their welfare, than that they do not "peach" (inform) on him and the other children. Nancy, who is the lover of Bill Sikes (the novel's lead villain), is confirmed to be Fagin's former pupil.įagin is a confessed miser who, despite the wealth that he has acquired, does very little to improve the squalid lives of the children he guards, or his own. At the time of the novel, he is said by another character, Monks, to have already made criminals out of "scores" of children. A distinguishing trait is his constant and insincere use of the phrase "my dear" when addressing others. He is the leader of a group of children (the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates among them) whom he teaches to make their livings by pickpocketing and other criminal activities, in exchange for shelter.
In the preface to the novel, he is described as a "receiver of stolen goods". He is one of the most notorious antisemitic portraits in English literature. Fagin / ˈ f eɪ ɡ ɪ n/ is a fictional character and the secondary antagonist in Charles Dickens's 1838 novel Oliver Twist.
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