# Dick Melvyn — My Brilliant Career character guide

> Dick Melvyn in My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dick ” Melvyn, Dick Melvyn, old Dick Melvyn, Melvyn, Smart Dick Melvyn

**First appearance:** 0005-ii-an-introduction-to-possum-gully

## Snapshot

Sybylla's father, once a gentleman of promise, now a struggling Possum Gully farmer whose decline drags the family down with him.

## Who they are

Dick Melvyn's failed selections and road contracts keep the pot barely boiling, and his daughter's sharpest grief is watching a man of breeding sink into shabbiness. His poverty is the reason Sybylla is sent to Caddagat as a poor relation, and the reason her grandmother's money props up the household. His slide shadows Sybylla's own fear of what a woman without money or beauty might become.

## In the story

### [My Brilliant Career](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_brilliant_career_se/chapters/my-brilliant-career)

A relative mentioned in the context of family history.

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