Memoirs of an Infantry Officer · Character
Thornton Tyrrell
A quietly radical officer who reads Kropotkin between duties, Tyrrell urges the narrator to turn private disillusionment into a public statement against the War.
supporting
Also known as Tyrrell
First appearance: i at the army school
As a supporting figure in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Thornton Tyrrell is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
An eminent mathematician, philosopher, and physicist recommended by Markington as the best man for the narrator to consult about his protest.
Tyrrell moves through the narrator's wartime world as a fellow officer whose convictions run deeper than mess-table grumbling. He presses Sherston to write a protest he can circulate, offering encouragement that feels both bracing and unnerving, and his faith in independent thinking becomes a mirror in which the narrator measures his own courage. Without Tyrrell's prodding, the book's central moral crisis might never have found its voice.
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Relationship types
- Professional
- Other
Character groups
- Training and Frontline Comrades
- Protagonist
- Home and Support Network
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Mr. Markington
professional · ambivalent
- Mr. Markington
professional · ambivalent
- Mr. Markington
professional · ambivalent
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