Pete
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Pete
Sort Name:
Pete
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Criminal
Specific Job:
Criminal
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Monday, January 1, 1912 to Monday, December 31, 1917
Biography:
Pete is "the man" who was "there that night" when Nancy committed the murder (50). The younger brother of the Alabama Red, the man Popeye murdered in Sanctuary, he comes to Jefferson after finding the salacious letters Temple Drake wrote eight years earlier to his brother. When he brings them back into Temple's life, he becomes both her blackmailer and her lover, the "next one" she falls in love with (132). When he appears in Act II, Scene II, the stage direction describes him as looking "like the general conception of a college man, or a successful young automobile or appliance salesman" - but "there is a definite 'untamed' air to him" (137).
Individual or Group:
Individual
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