# Wallace Umstead — Elmer Gantry character guide

> Wallace Umstead in Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0043-chapter-viii

## Who they are

A friend of Frank Shallard's.

## In the story

### [Chapter XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/elmer_gantry_se/chapters/chapter-xxiv)

General secretary of the Zenith Y.M.C.A.; former Mizpah classmate visited by Elmer.

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

Wallace is a former Mizpah student-instructor in gymnastics, now general secretary of the Zenith Y.M.C.A. Elmer considers him a boob but plans to use him for publicity.

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