Terry Nicholson Character Analysis

The second major male character is Terry O. Nicholson who is known as Terry.
Terry was rich enough to do as he pleased. His great aim was exploration. He used to make all kinds of a row because there was nothing left to explore now, only patchwork and filling in, he said. He filled in well enough –he had a lot of talents-great on mechanics and electricity .Had all kinds of boats and motor cars and was one of the best airmen. We never could have done the thing at all without Terry. (Gilman 2).
“Terry was intelligent on facts –meteorology and geography”. (2)Terry was the one who was very excited and took up the expedition. He made an airplane and with the help of it they landed in Herland. He planned all the things meticulously. Van and Jeff know why he is so interested to go there because the land is full of girls and Terry is fond of girls.
And terry, in his secret heart, had visions of a sort of sublimated summer resort-just girls and girls and girls-and that he was going to be well, Terry was popular among women even when there were other men around, and it’s not be wondered at that he had pleasant dreams of what might happen. (Gilman 9)
Terry motivates all of them to explore the feminist utopia of Herland. He is a wealthy young pilot. He is very proud that he is a man. Van says about Terry;
He was a man’s man, very much so,

Initially, Terry seems to be confident, courageous, humorous, and a natural leader of men and charmer of ladies, but later on he turns out to be an abuser, and a fool. Terry further thinks that men are naturally superior to women and that every woman naturally enjoys being “mastered” by her man. In Gilman’s time, men of Terry’s type were called as “blackguards” opposed to Jeff who is a gentlemen. By introducing the character of Terry, Gilman says that Terry is an example of unhealthy male-dominated society where blackguards like Terry are loved and gentlemen like Jeff are