Chick

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Chick
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Mallison, Charles II
AKA: 
Chick Mallison
Charles Mallison, Jr.
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Secondary
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
Stevens
Family (new): 
Real?: 
No
Narrator: 
First Person
Biography: 

The narrator of "Tomorrow" does not identify himself, except as the nephew of the man he invariably calls "Uncle Gavin." As a relative of Gavin Stevens, it can be assumed that he belongs to one of the older upper class families in Yoknapatawpha, but in this text he mainly serves as a point of view from which to watch Gavin recover the past that solves the mystery. He played the same structural role - a kind of Dr. Watson to Gavin's kind of Sherlock Holmes - without any name at all in the earlier "Monk," but in "Tomorrow" he gets a kind of name when Gavin addresses him as "Chick" (93). (In Intruder in the Dust he will get a first and last name: Charles Mallison, Jr., the son of Gavin's twin sister Maggie.)

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CUT: Chick Mallison is the nephew of Gavin Stevens, a Jefferson attorney who is one of Faulkner's favorite characters. Chick himself appears often throughout Faulkner's texts, beginning with the <em>Knight's Gambit</em>'s stories, and on through many of Faulkner's texts from the 1940s and 1950s. As a Stevens, he belongs to one of the old upper class Jefferson families.
Individual or Group: 
Individual
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