Dewey Denouement

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A Series of Unfortunate Events character
Dewey Denouement
Gender	Male
Hair color	Unknown
Age	Adult (deceased)
Film actor	None
1st appearance	The Penultimate Peril
V.F.D. alliance	Volunteer

In Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Dewey Denouement is one of the three identical triplet brothers who own and manage the Hotel Denouement. He prefers to remain in the shadows, and many people think him to be mythical. He is a member of V.F.D., on the fire-fighting side, and has assembled a considerable catalogue of evidence against V.F.D.'s enemies, which he hides in a second hotel, disguised as the reflection of the first in a pond. He is the penultimate guardian of the Baudelaire orphans.

Dewey Denouement befriends the Baudelaire orphans, winning their trust by quoting a poem their father knew. He takes them outside and reveals the secret of his catalogue. However, when they re-enter the hotel, they find Count Olaf waiting. He threatens Dewey with a harpoon gun. The Baudelaires attempt to save him by standing in front of him, walking towards Olaf and trying to persuade him to give them the gun. When Mr. Poe arrives, Count Olaf throws the gun to the Baudelaires and they drop it. The harpoon goes off and impales Dewey.

After his death, the narrative implies that he is the father of Kit Snicket's soon-to-be-born baby girl, who will be an orphan after Kit dies giving birth in the thirteenth book.

Often Dewey talks of himself and his comrade, thought to be Kit Snicket (explaining how they grew close enough to have children). Dewey's comments indicate that either he or Kit were responsible for throwing the sugar bowl from the V.F.D. Headquarters in the Mortmain Mountains and into the Stricken Stream. However, the narrative in The Slippery Slope specifically states that none of the Baudelaires would ever meet that volunteer, so it cannot have been either of them. Dewey or his comrade could have been responsible for getting someone else to throw the sugar bowl into the Stricken Stream, which given his relatively high position as part owner of the Hotel, is entirely possible, and would reconcile those two statements.

Dewey, like many members of V.F.D., lost his parents in a fire that destroyed his home. Olaf seems to be the one responsible and almost outright says so upon discovering that Dewey survived the fire after all.

His favorite section of the library is 020, which is Library & Information Sciences on the Dewey Decimal System.

Preceded by: Captain Widdershins (The Grim Grotto)

Guardian of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire

Succeeded by: Ishmael (The End)