Dolphus Raymond
‘Secretly Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.’
--Dolphus Raymond
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Dolphus Raymond is a minor character with a rather substantial impact, he had multiple kids with a colored woman simply because he wanted to. These two lives (his actual and his public persona) are necessary to him, and the public persona and the reality help him maintain his “unusual” life. By drinking the Cola while people thinks that it’s whiskey, he can live his ways, like marrying and having children with a colored woman, and not really acting like a white man of that time should act. Analyzing a situation and obtaining a solution like that takes a lot of thought, and it seems to be effective, not bad for a supposed drunk.
'I try to give ‘em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. When I come to town, which is seldom, if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey - that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself, that’s why he lives the way he does.'
--Dolphus Raymond
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Dolphus has a rather unique look on life; he feels as though that people would disprove of his desires so he gives them a reason other than his desires so they blame the whiskey rather than him.
--Dolphus Raymond
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Dolphus Raymond is a minor character with a rather substantial impact, he had multiple kids with a colored woman simply because he wanted to. These two lives (his actual and his public persona) are necessary to him, and the public persona and the reality help him maintain his “unusual” life. By drinking the Cola while people thinks that it’s whiskey, he can live his ways, like marrying and having children with a colored woman, and not really acting like a white man of that time should act. Analyzing a situation and obtaining a solution like that takes a lot of thought, and it seems to be effective, not bad for a supposed drunk.
'I try to give ‘em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. When I come to town, which is seldom, if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey - that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself, that’s why he lives the way he does.'
--Dolphus Raymond
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Dolphus has a rather unique look on life; he feels as though that people would disprove of his desires so he gives them a reason other than his desires so they blame the whiskey rather than him.