Description: He is the 'Politician' of the school, cause he is active in student government. He also goes to the Butt room to smoke when he wants to. He is six feet but is not in sports.
Age: Not given
Job: Student at Devon, is in student government
Symbolism: This picture shows someone who, like Brinker, looks tall enough like they could play sports, wants to be a politician, and can be liked by everyone just like Brinker.
Character Analysis: Brinker Hadley is very political at Devon. Almost everyone likes him. He likes to find out the whole truth about everything, including Finny's fall. He notices Gene choose Finny as his roomate yet Finny was not going to be at school till winter so gene gets the all of the room for himself for now. Brinker quickly becomes the first one to accuse Gene when he says, "You fixed it. You knew all the time. I'll bet it was all your doing."(Knowles 88) Brinker is not the best politician because Gene was able to talk his way away from Brinker when they were at the Butt room. Brinker can be a little physical sometimes like when he is bringing Gene into the Butt room. "Here's your prisoner, gentlemen,' announced Brinker, seizing my neck and pushing me into the Butt room ahead of him, 'I'm turning him over to the proper authorities."
Character-Theme-Tie-In: He gets Gene to finally admit that he forced Phineas off the tree and it sort of interrupts the peace inside Gene.
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