The word that best describes the Unicorn's character as the author has developed him in this passage is direct. The Unicorn speaks openly to the King and expresses his feelings about the encounter without hesitation, suggesting a straightforward and unreserved nature.
Read this passage from Through the Looking-Glass.
At this moment the Unicorn sauntered by them, with his hands in his pockets. “I had the best of it this time!” he said to the King, just glancing at him as he passed.
“A little—a little,” the King replied, rather nervously. “You shouldn’t have run him through with your horn, you know.”
“It didn’t hurt him,” the Unicorn said carelessly, and he was going on, when his eye happened to fall upon Alice: he turned round rather instantly, and stood for some time looking at her with an air of the deepest disgust.
Which word best describes the Unicorn’s character as the author has developed him?
cautious
direct
secretive
charming
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