The first time we see Puck's character (or Roben Goodfellow) in A Midsummer Night's Dream, was in Act II scene 1, where he runs into one of the fairies in Titania - Queen of the Fairies - service. In this scene, the two squabble about the disagreement that the King and Queen are having, each with their own opinion, since they are under the service of the opposite. And the scene ends with Puck boasting about all the different tricks he has played on people, saying...
"I am the merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Obernon and make him smile
When I a fat and a bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.
And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl
In very likeness of a roasted crab,
And when she drinks, against her lips I bob
And on her withered dewlap pour the ale.
The wisest aut telling the saddest tale,
Sometimes for three-foot stool mistakenth me;
The slip I from her bum, down topples she,
And "Tailor!" cries, and falls into a cough,
And then the whole choir hold their hips and loffe
And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there."
From this we see how Puck is a very mischievous character, and as a result, he is the one who causes most of the trouble in this play. First he mixes up Lysander, who is truly deeply in love with Hermia, with Demetrius, who also loves Hermia, but that love really is only lust, when Helena, one of Hermia's greatest friends is deeply in love with him. And instead of making Demetrius fall in love with Helena, using a magical flower, which was hit with one of Cupid's arrow's, he make Lysander fall in love with Helena. So the second act ends with Lysander in love with Helena, and Hermia waking up from a nightmare, about about a snake, only to have the real nightmeare of her love gone, and in love with her best friend.
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