He himself, writing to Morritt, calls his hero "a sneaking piece of imbecility;" but he probably started with loftier intentions of "psychological analysis" than he fulfilled.

He knew, and often said, in private letters, as in published works, that he was no hand at a respectable hero.

Borderers, buccaneers, robber, and humorsome people, like Dugald Dalgetty and Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Macwheeble, whom he said he preferred to any person in "Waverley," were the characters he delighted in.

We may readily believe that Shakspeare too preferred Jacques and the Fat Knight to Orlando or the favoured lover of Anne Page.
Your hero is a difficult person to make human,--unless, indeed, he has the defects of Pendennis or Tom Jones.

But it is likely enough that the Waverley whom Scott had in his mind in 1805 was hardly the Waverley of 1813.