Gavin Stevens
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Gavin Stevens
Sort Name:
Stevens, Gavin
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Stevens
Family (new):
Occupation:
Administrative
Specific Job:
District Attorney
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
The last part of "Hair" marks the first appearance in Faulkner's fiction of Gavin Stevens. Over the next three decades he will re-appear in 16 more fictions, becoming perhaps Faulkner's favorite character. Here he is introduced as Yoknapatawpha's Harvard-educated "district attorney" (144), and the person who got the narrator his job as a traveling salesman. In return, the narrator has a lot of respect for Stevens, whom he describes as a "smart man" rather than a "usual pedagogue lawyer and office holder" (144).
Note:
CUT: It's Stevens who suggests the unnamed narrator take the road and gets the narrator the job he has in the story's present.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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