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
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Biography:
A "Harvard graduate, a Phi Beta Kappa: a tall loosejointed man with a constant cob pipe" (444), Gavin Stevens descends from one of the old Yoknapatawpha slaveholding families and is District Attorney of Yoknapatawpha County. He becomes one of the most important figures in Faulkner's later, post-1942 fiction. In Light in August his main role is to provide a racial explanation for Joe Christmas' behavior.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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