Mr. Bullock
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Mr. Bullock
Sort Name:
Bullock, Mr.
AKA:
Joe Buffaloe
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Production
Specific Job:
Electric Engineer
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
A "dreamy myopic gentian-eyed mechanical wizard," Mr. Bullock is the electric engineer who maintains the town's power plant (26). His passion for the first automobile to appear in Jefferson is that of an engineer: he takes it apart "to find out why it ran" (28) and a year later builds one himself. When it is banned from the streets, he converts "an area of open land behind his house" into "a fair motordrome," or test track, where he can continue to drive it (30). An "apparently inexhaustible reservoir of surprises and capabilities," he pulls a gun when Boon attempts to take that first car away from him (28). (In the last two novels in the Snopes trilogy Bullock is named "Joe Buffaloe.")
Property Status:
owns land
owns house
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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