# Uncle Sydney — Giant’s Bread character guide

> Uncle Sydney in Giant’s Bread by Agatha Christie.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sydney, Syd, Bother Uncle Sydney

**First appearance:** 0002-i

## Snapshot

A booming, backslapping uncle full of tobacco jokes and Bent's profits, who reduces his sister's marital crisis to a matter of brass tacks and businesslike footing.

## Who they are

Uncle Sydney presides over family evenings with facetiousness Vernon privately finds stupid and boring, and over Myra's marital collapse with a businessman's patience for women who harp on things. He advises her to forgive Walter and take a broadminded view, then pivots cheerfully to his wife Carrie's swollen legs and hopes for a son. His cheerful pragmatism exposes the gap between the family's sentimental self-image and its actual arrangements.

## Relationships

### [Vernon Deyre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/vernon_deyre)

_family_

Uncle Sydney is Vernon's eccentric, supportive uncle who encourages his musical pursuits.

### [Vernon Deyre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/vernon_deyre)

_family_

Uncle Sydney is Vernon's eccentric, supportive uncle who encourages his musical pursuits.

### [Vernon Deyre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/characters/vernon_deyre)

_family_

Uncle Sydney is Vernon's eccentric, supportive uncle who encourages his musical pursuits.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/ii)

Myra's brother, who tries to engage Vernon with jokes but finds him lacking a sense of humor.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned as having said Vernon doesn't like funny things.

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

Arrives to mediate the marital crisis, advises give-and-take, jingles his money, and teases Vernon about the engine.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/iii)

Arranges the letting of Abbots Puissants; suggests Vernon move to Birmingham.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/iv)

Mentioned as having a horrid red brick house with pipes.

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

Mentioned as coming to tea; Vernon blames him for the changes in the household.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/ii)

Visits with his daughter Enid, full of bluff jokes and talk of Bent's prosperity.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned as the source of idiotic jokes that made the evening unpleasant.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/ii)

Offers Vernon a place in Bent's business, speaking plainly and with pride about the family.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/vi)

Recipient of Vernon's letter accepting the offer to join Bent's.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned as Vernon's employer; Vernon hopes he might increase his salary to enable an early marriage.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/v)

Annoyed and upset by Vernon's engagement, tries to dissuade him with arguments about money and youth, advises him to talk to his mother.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/ii)

Furious about Vernon's decision, though Vernon admits his anger is not without reason.

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

Vernon visits him and is received coldly; his daughter Enid is engaged to a solicitor.

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

Practical and blunt, concerned about money and wills, dislikes Nell and Mrs. Vereker.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/giant_s_bread_se/chapters/vi)

Cynically comments on Nell's engagement.

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