i guess i’d have liked to know more about his early life--?? the manuscript is a tad more revealing than the final publication, what with the lines about becoming a “slave to certain appetites” and being constantly plunged into “the mire of [his] vices,” but even that is pretty ambiguous and general. beyond knowing that he was born into a large fortune, we know literally NOTHING about jekyll’s family, upbringing, school years, or early life in general. the first time we meet him is when he’s fifty, and his death comes two years later; and really, that’s all we ever see of his life. i’d have loved to know where he went to school, how much his friends knew about his vices (since utterson obviously did), what his relationship with his parents was like, whether he had siblings, why he chose to pursue degrees in law as well as a medical degree, what he did to get the attention of the royal society to be inducted as a fellow... i could go on for AGES. we just know so little about jekyll before the age of fifty, and i wish stevenson had given us more of that.