Unnamed Narrator

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Wed, 2015-07-01 14:59
Text: 
"All the Dead Pilots"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Narrator 4
Display Name: 
Unnamed Narrator
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Narrator
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Middle Class
Rank: 
Major
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Specific Job: 
Mail Censor
First Mentioned: 
WW1 Europe: Wing Headquarters in "All the Dead Pilots" (Location)
Narrator: 
First Person
Biography: 

The unnamed narrator seems to be a captain like Spoomer, who greets him as an equal while the gunnery sergeant stands in recognition of his rank (518). However, he doesn't seem to enforce his rank; the gunnery sergeant who is the source of much of his information has no qualms about discussing the antics of officers Spoomer and Sartoris with him, for example. He is an inventor, a wartime military mail censor, and a casualty of war "trying to get used to a mechanical leg" (512). A curious, sympathetic, and imaginative man, he is capable of recognizing the irony and the triviality of the Spoomer-Sartoris rivalry as well as the sad wastes of Sartoris' and the surviving pilots' lives in war. We identify him as British because of how foreign Sartoris and America seem to be to him.

Disability: 
amputee
wounded
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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