Giant’s Bread · Character

Mr. Chetwynd

An old gentleman who reads the Giant as man himself — the pygmy individualist enduring through stone and iron — and asks what flesh and blood feeds such a monster.

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Also known as Chetwynd, George Chetwynd, Mr. George Chetwynd

First appearance: I

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George Chetwynd is a guest at dinner, an American who admires Nell and invites the family to Dinard.

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Mr. Chetwynd lingers by a doorway after the evening's end, musing to Levinne that heredity shapes the instrument, environment polishes it, sex wakens it — but something more feeds the Giant. He suspects Groen has fed his creation with his own flesh and blood, and he asks Levinne to tell him the beginning. His questions frame the novel's central mystery: what makes a genius, and what does it cost.

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George Chetwynd is a guest at dinner, an American who admires Nell and invites the family to Dinard. He appears glum at the end of the chapter.
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George Chetwynd is mentioned by Mrs. Vereker as someone who needed prodding.
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George Chetwynd dances with Nell at the Howards' dance, serving as a contrast to Vernon's intense connection with her.
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George Chetwynd picks up Nell in Ealing and proposes marriage.
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George Chetwynd has proposed to Nell twice; Mrs. Vereker mentions he sails for America on May 30.
II
Visits Nell at the hospital, takes her to lunch, and announces his departure for Serbia to organize relief work.
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Purchases Abbots Puissants and visits Nell to confess; argues that it is better for him to own it than a stranger.
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Mentioned as Green's employer, a kind old man keen on 'uplift' and antiquity.
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Returns home to Nell, gives her a rose-colored diamond, unaware of her turmoil.

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