Characterisation of Mr. Mumsford

The short story Mr. Mumsford, written by Larry French deals with
Ralph Mumsford, who wants to fine-tune the star, because everyone at
the direct c every(prenominal)s him Bibs instead of his in truth name.

Ralph Mumsford is a janitor at the Confederate school. He is six feet tall
and black skinned (line 14). He has been work as a janitor for
twenty-seven years at this school (line 4 and 5) and at his initiatory day he
has worn a pair of old bib overalls (line 16). This shows that he hasnt
got a parcel of money and it is overly the reason why everyone calls him
Bibs. This makes clear that Mr. Mumsford isnt prize by the peopleat the school at all. He is described as a not particularly intelligent man (line 2) and it also comes clear that he is from a lower stratum of society, because he uses wrong grammar and colloquial terms. For example in line 18 where he says: Onliest person knows my real name is that woman signs my check... or in line 20: Hell, I know moren half(a) of their names....

It is a little difficult to analyse the behaviour of Mr. Mumsford, because
on the one hand he seems to be a go aggressive, because he wants to kill the principal (line 15). Moreover he killed a rabbit for supper when he was a child and he never felt guilty for that (line 1-4).



On the other hand he is also easily influenced, because in the end of the story the principal convinced him not to kill him while saying: submit lookee here, if I promise me and all my teachers call you by your real name from now on, will you not kill me? (line 31/32). He is also a really carrying person: he knows half of the names of the students (line 20) and he cares about the principal and his family. You tail assembly see that in line 36 where he says: You been functional too many hours. A Christian man ought to evermore eat the supper meal with his wife.

So all in all I would say that the character of Ralph Mumsford changes
during the development of the story. At first you think he is an
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