# Captain Mackenzie — No More Parades character guide

> Captain Mackenzie in No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mackenzie

**First appearance:** 0001-no-more-parades

## Snapshot

A grumbling young officer who trades insults with Tietjens in Latin and sonnets, and grudgingly admits no one shifts a draft faster.

## Who they are

Mackenzie shares Tietjens' hut and his contempt for the mountain of paperwork descending from every headquarters in France. Their sparring — rhymes for a sonnet against Latin hexameters in three minutes — is half hostility, half the only intimacy available to men under strain. He resents Tietjens and defends him in the same breath, and his frayed temper shows how thin the officer class's composure has worn.

## Relationships

### [Christopher Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/christopher_tietjens)

_psychological_

Mackenzie is a mentally unstable officer who becomes obsessively hostile toward Tietjens, seeing him as a symbol of authority to defy.

### [Christopher Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/christopher_tietjens)

_psychological_

Mackenzie is a mentally unstable officer who becomes obsessively hostile toward Tietjens, seeing him as a symbol of authority to defy.

### [Christopher Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/christopher_tietjens)

_psychological_

Mackenzie is a mentally unstable officer who becomes obsessively hostile toward Tietjens, seeing him as a symbol of authority to defy.

## In the story

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

A mentally unstable officer who claims General Campion is his uncle and accuses Tietjens of being no soldier.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/chapters/part-i-ii)

Mackenzie is described as a 'damned clerk' who transfers rhymes onto paper, representing the type of regular officer Tietjens disdains.

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