Bland
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Bland
Sort Name:
Bland
AKA:
Gerald Bland
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Armed Forces
Specific Job:
Allied Aviator
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Friday, January 1, 1892
Origin:
The South
Other Texts:
Biography:
Identified as "a Southerner" (408), before the War Bland went to England as a Rhodes scholar. During the War he serves as an Royal Flying Corps pilot, though "in the five months he had been out, no one had ever found a bullet hole in his machine" - suggesting that he was choosing not to engage in combat (408). Drinking with the other officers, Bland likes to talk about his imaginary wife. This "Bland" is probably the same person who appears In The Sound and the Fury as Gerald Bland, one of Quentin Compson's Harvard contemporaries, who is preoccupied with conquests of women.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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