Chick
Text:
Character Key:
Display Name:
Chick
Sort Name:
Mallison, Charles II
Parent:
AKA:
Chick Mallison
Charles Mallison, Jr.
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Stevens
Family (new):
First Mentioned:
Real?:
No
Narrator:
First Person
Other Texts:
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.)
Note:
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
Character changes class in this text:
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