Mansfield Park
William Price
Fanny's brother
Fanny's brave, open-hearted older brother, a young sailor in the Royal Navy. She loves him more than anyone.
William Price is Fanny's older brother and her closest tie to her old home. As a child she cried for him and Edmund helped her write to him. He is a midshipman in the Royal Navy, honest and warm, and proud of his service.
When he visits Mansfield he enchants the family with tales of the sea and wins Sir Thomas's respect. He is the sibling Fanny loves best. He brings a breath of sea air and plain family love into a house that has too little of either.
“I am made! I am made a Lieutenant! Fanny, it is the Thrush sloop-of-war!”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
William arrives in his midshipman's uniform and gives Fanny an amber cross from Sicily, bought with his first prize money. Henry Crawford uses his uncle's connections to arrange a promotion, and William is made a Lieutenant on the Thrush.
William escorts Fanny to Portsmouth and then sails away, leaving her lonely. He is there at the end, among the family at her wedding.
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