Unnamed Australian Major

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2012-04-20 15:34
Text: 
Flags in the Dust
Character Key: 
Unnamed Australian Major
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Unnamed Australian Major
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Unnamed Australian Major
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Specific Job: 
Aviator
First Mentioned: 
Leicester Lounge in Flags in the Dust (Location)
Origin: 
Australia
Biography: 

Young Bayard mentions him during his talk with Rafe MacCallum "about the war"; the memory features a fight in "the Leicester lounge" in which "the Anzac lost two teeth" and Bayard himself "got a black eye" (124). The fight may have been over "two ladies," and may have been between Bayard and the Major, but none of that is made clear. Faulkner may have meant this character to be the same as the Australian captain whose teeth Bayard knocks out in a bar in London (cf. 385) - in which case it might be another instance, like the tales Caspey brings home from France, of the unreliability of war stories.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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