Andres

Also known as: his servant / the servant / the youth · Role: servant · First appears: Part 1, Ch. 4.1

In Part 1, Ch. 4.1, Andres is the servant of Juan Haldudo the Rich, employed to watch a flock of sheep. Juan Haldudo the Rich punishes him for alleged negligence, flogging and scolding him while Andres promises to take greater care. Don Quixote intervenes as Andres’s patron, forcing the farmer to release him and pay his unpaid wages; he also treats the shoes and the barber’s bloodletting as a setoff against the blows Andres has suffered. After Don Quixote leaves, however, Juan Haldudo the Rich binds Andres again and beats him nearly to death.

By Part 1, Ch. 31.3, Andres explains that the intervention brought him another beating without payment, and he turns against Don Quixote as an enemy: “For the love of God, sir knight-errant, if you ever meet me again, though you may see them cutting me to pieces, give me no aid or succour.” Don Quixote renews his promise to avenge him but postpones action until Dorothea’s enterprise is finished. Sancho Panza gives Andres bread and cheese, saying that everyone shares in his misfortune, after which Andres takes the road and departs.

Relationship record

Life events

• Juan Haldudo the Rich flogs Andres while punishing him for alleged negligence.(Part 1, Ch. 4.1)
  • With: Juan Haldudo the Rich
  • “a lusty farmer was flogging him with a belt and following up every blow with scoldings and commands”
• Don Quixote forces Juan Haldudo the Rich to release Andres and pay his unpaid wages.(Part 1, Ch. 4.1)
  • With: Don Quixote Juan Haldudo the Rich
  • “The farmer hung his head, and without a word untied his servant, of whom Don Quixote asked how much his master owed him.”
• After Don Quixote leaves, Juan Haldudo the Rich rebinds Andres and beats him nearly to death.(Part 1, Ch. 4.1)
  • With: Juan Haldudo the Rich
  • “and seizing him by the arm, he tied him up again, and gave him such a flogging that he left him for dead.”
• Andres reveals that Don Quixote’s intervention led to renewed flogging and left him unpaid.(Part 1, Ch. 31.3)
  • With: Don Quixote
  • “Not only did he not pay me,” replied the lad, “but as soon as your worship had passed out of the wood and we were alone, he tied me up again to the same oak and gave me a fresh flogging”
• Don Quixote renews his promise to avenge Andres, but postpones action until Dorothea’s enterprise is completed.(Part 1, Ch. 31.3)
  • With: Don Quixote Dorothea
  • “To which she replied that he must remember that in accordance with his promise he could not engage in any enterprise until he had concluded hers”
• Sancho gives Andres bread and cheese, after which Andres takes the road and departs.(Part 1, Ch. 31.3)
  • With: Sancho Panza
  • “Andres seized his bread and cheese, and seeing that nobody gave him anything more, bent his head, and took hold of the road, as the saying is.”