Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Summary
Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Summary

PartI

The story opens with Dr. Jekyll's friend and solicitor, Gabriel John Utterson, and Utterson's distant kinsman, Mr. Enfield, taking a walk one Sunday. They find themselves passing a "certain sinister block of building" in theLondon district of Soho that "bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence." After stopping in front of a "blistered and distained" door on this block, Mr. Enfield recalls that one evening at three he was returning home through that section of the city when he saw a man run into a little girl. He notes that "the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground." Immediately,Enfield apprehended the man and brought him back to the child and to the group that was gathering around her.Enfield admits that the suspect "was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought... View more of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Summary