Gavin Stevens
Text:
Character Key:
Display Name:
Gavin Stevens
Sort Name:
Stevens, Gavin
AKA:
Uncle Gavin
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Stevens
Family (new):
Occupation:
Professional
Specific Job:
Attorney
First Mentioned:
Origin:
Jefferson
Other Texts:
Biography:
"About fifty," Gavin Stevens has been Yoknapatawpha County attorney for many years (39). He is Gowan Stevens' uncle. Stevens "looks more like a poet than a lawyer and actually is a bachelor, descendant of one of the pioneer Yoknapatawpha County families, Harvard and Heidelberg educated, and returned to his native soil to be a sort of bucolic Cincinnatus, champion not so much of truth as of justice, or of justice as he sees it" (39). He appears frequently in Faulkner's fiction, beginning with "Hair" (1931). In Requiem for a Nun, he persists in urging Temple Drake to explain her own behavior.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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