John Moore is the eloquent, yet oftten befuddled, narrator of the story "Alienist" He is a crime reporter for "The New York Times".

John Moore is a major character in Alienist and he works as a crime reporter for "The New York Times" he is valuable in the story for his thorough understanding of New York City's underworld and inner workings. At the time of the story John lives with his grandmother in Washington square of New York. He is known to often fall into sadness due to the passing of his younger brother, and the broken engagement to his wife which is briefly mentioned in the story a few times throughout it.

John's character personality is something that is only grazed throughout the story. He is seen being very kind and having much sympathy to the murders that happen in the "Alienist". In the story he has pleantly of mixes of comical qualities and has a mix of darker qualities. In the novel John doesn'y give much narration to himself so you only learn so much about his past in the story and all the characters have conflicting views on him based on how intimately they know his character.

One thing that was rather clear in the novel is that John is often times slow on the uptake. He is always one step behind everyone else. In the story his times of confusion are what makes his character rather comical and at times frustrating. This works quite well in a story as long as this one because it gives the readers a narrator that asks just as many questions as most would.

Bad qualities

Even despite these bad qualities John isn't unintelligent. Usually his confusion is due to the fact that he has very little knowledge of the field the group are dealing with in their investigation. As mentioned before he does have a vast understanding of the workigs of New York which has often made him someone of great use in the investigation. Thorughout the investigation John is the one who gives into the hopelessness of the investigation. Even with his bad qualities he is very good with words and is known to be very good journalist.

Overall John Moore is a nice character throughout the story story and is very easy to reason with in the story.