Jack was an orphan who was discovered by the now deceased Mr. Thomas Cardew in a handbag in the cloakroom of a London railway station. Jack grows up to be a man of intelligence, power, and responsibility. He looks like he is a great example of Victorian manners but secretly despises these manners and wants to indulge in depravity when he is in the big city. Jack is a hypocrite but then Oscar Wilde is trying to say that there is a little of Jack in all of us.