Editing Man and Superman (section)

== Summary ==
Mr. Whitefield has recently died, and his [[will and testament|will]] indicates that his daughter Ann should be left in the care of two men, Roebuck Ramsden and John Tanner. Ramsden, a venerable old man, distrusts John Tanner, an eloquent youth with revolutionary ideas, whom Shaw's stage directions describe as "prodigiously fluent of speech, restless, excitable (mark the snorting nostril and the restless blue eye, just the thirty-secondth of an inch too wide open), possibly a little mad".<ref name=John>{{cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/157/1.html|title=Act I. Shaw, Bernard. 1903. Man and Superman|website=www.bartleby.com|access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref> In spite of what Ramsden says, Ann accepts Tanner as her [[Legal guardian|guardian]], though Tanner does not want the position at all. She also challenges Tanner's revolutionary beliefs with her own ideas. Despite Tanner's professed dedication to [[anarchy]], he is unable to disarm Ann's charm, and she ultimately persuades him to marry her,<ref name=ann>[http://freehelpstoenglishliterature.blogspot.com/2008/07/character-of-ann-whitefield-in-shaws.html#!/2008/07/character-of-ann-whitefield-in-shaws.html "Character of Ann Whitefield in Shaw's Man and Superman." ''Studying English Literature.'' 4 July 2008.]</ref> choosing him over her more persistent suitor, a young man, Tanner's friend, named Octavius Robinson.