Jock

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2013-12-26 17:36
Text: 
"Death Drag"
Character Key: 
Jock
Display Name: 
Jock
Sort Name: 
Jock
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Middle Class
Rank: 
Major
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Transportation
Specific Job: 
Barnstorming Pilot
First Mentioned: 
Airfield in "Death Drag" (Location)
Biography: 

A former pilot in the Royal Flying Corps who has lost his civilian pilot's license, Jock is one of Faulkner's aviators who cannot stay away from airplanes. He is a tall, dashing figure whose stained clothing and unruly hair indicate that he doesn't care about his physical appearance; insomniac and perennially thirsty, he is emotionally tense and self-contained and won't accept offers of help from his former comrade-in-arms, Captain Warren. Warren thinks the strain of Jock's lifestyle is going to kill him: "You aren't going to last long," he says (195), meaning Jock will be in jail soon but implying something more dire. (Jock is a clear forerunner of the barnstormers in the non-Yoknapatawpha novel Pylon, 1935.)

Disability: 
psychosocially impaired
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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