Twoflower’s enthusiastic naivete
Twoflower is called tourist, a first ever on Discworld, and he enthusiastically wants to explore and experience everything. He is naïve to the dangers that he could find himself in, often oblivious when he does get in danger, and is overly optimistic. Rincewind is one of the many who quickly become aware of his naivety.
Rincewind thought that a meeting with most of the Durm’s clientele would mean that Twoflower never went home again, unless he lived downriver and happened to float past.
Rincewind ends up as Twoflower’s protector
Ironically enough, Rincewind is the first person who tried to take advantage of Twoflower’s naivete. He promises to be his companion, and after Twoflower pays him in gold, Rincewind immediately plans to disappear. Irony finds Rincewind again when he gets arrested for spending the gold and gets assigned as Twoflower’s protector.
The Watch
There are many things in the Discworld that defy logic, and it’s not much different when it comes to social structures of people and their roles and obligations. Such example is when, while Twoflower is staying at the Broken Durm, an intense brawl ensues. The Watch in Ankh-Morpork is responsible for order, but they never intervened in a brawl before most of the participants end up dead.
The job carried a pension, and attracted a cautious, thoughtful kind of man.
“If she had a man”
It is interesting that in a world of nonsense, such as Discworld, the role of a woman and the clichés surrounding that remain quite ordinary. Liessa, the dragonlady, is the most competent and strongest of her father’s successors, yet she needs a man, preferably “short on brains”, to be able to rule.
