# My Father — Calvary character guide

> My Father in Calvary by Octave Mirbeau.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** father

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A notary, mayor, and pillar of Saint-Michel who could not see a living creature without wanting to kill it.

## Who they are

Respected for his income and his honors, the elder Mintié kept a rifle by the door and abandoned clients mid-meal to stalk a titmouse. His mania for killing cats and birds is the narrator's earliest education in the strange appetites that hide beneath respectable surfaces. This gentle, murderous father casts a long shadow over the son's adult obsessions, and the novel's childhood chapters are unthinkable without him.

## Relationships

### [My Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/my_mother)

_family_

My Father and My Mother are married, but their relationship is strained by secrets and external pressures.

### [Jean-François-Marie-Mintié](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/jean_francois_marie_mintie)

_social_

Jean-François-Marie-Mintié knows My Father socially, possibly as a neighbor or colleague.

### [Lirat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/lirat)

_rivalry_

Lirat and My Father are in conflict, likely over family loyalty or control of resources.

### [Juliette Roux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/juliette_roux)

_family_

Juliette Roux and My Father share a father-daughter relationship, though it is distant and fraught with unspoken tension.

### [Jean-François-Marie-Mintié](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/jean_francois_marie_mintie)

_social_

Jean-François-Marie-Mintié knows My Father socially, possibly as a neighbor or colleague.

### [Juliette Roux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/juliette_roux)

_family_

Juliette Roux and My Father share a father-daughter relationship, though it is distant and fraught with unspoken tension.

### [Lirat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/lirat)

_rivalry_

Lirat and My Father are in conflict, likely over family loyalty or control of resources.

### [My Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/characters/my_mother)

_family_

My Father and My Mother are married, but their relationship is strained by secrets and external pressures.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/calvary_se/chapters/i)

Takes mother to Paris to consult physicians; described as squatted behind shrubbery with a musket; attempts to manage the household during her illness.

## Links

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