6/22/2023 0 Comments Captain hooks sidekick![]() ![]() ![]() In Peter and Wendy, he is identified as the ship's bo'sun. ![]() Smee's position on the Jolly Roger is presented inconsistently (in a sense, it could be said that "no two 'Smees' are alike"). Smee offers to save Wendy from the plank, if only she promises to be his mother – an offer she refuses, in Barrie's words, "Not even for Smee". He almost tears into Smee for this but knows that clawing a man for having good form is very bad form. Hook considers that Smee has good form without knowing it, which is of course the best form of all. When captured by Hook, every child in the brig loves Smee – he cannot lay a fist on them and does their darning – despite his belief that they fear him. Smee typically represents a humorous side to pirating, often portrayed as a portly man with a bulbous nose and red cheeks, although Barrie hinted at a darker side. Smee seems an oddly genial man for a pirate Barrie describes him as "Irish", the only nonconformist among Hook's crew, and "a man who stabbed without offense" – and is portrayed in the multiple pantomimes or movies of Peter Pan as a rather stupid but entertaining man interested in loot rather than Hook's more evil pleasures. In the animated Disney movie, Smee helped keep the crocodile that wanted to eat Hook away from his captain, and the crocodile seemed to listen to him. Smee was a sort of bungler, though Hook still kept him as his second in command. In the book, he reformed after Hook died. Although an antagonistic character, Smee was not truly evil he simply obeyed his evil captain's orders. ![]()
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