Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Study Guide

Chapter 1 outlines the personalities of the Dursleys and presents the reader with Harry Potter, "The Boy who Lived." The Dursleys are an uptight, closed-minded, middle-class family with one son named Dudley. They consider themselves to be beyond reproach and quite upstanding; however, they guard a secret that they believe would ruin their reputations if anyone were to find it out. (read more)