# McAllister — Poetry character guide

> McAllister in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** XIX McAllister

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

A wronged versifier who paid in advance for a promised portrait, only to find the painter's conscience as empty as his own rhyme-stocked purse.

## In the story

### [To an Insolent Attorney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/to-an-insolent-attorney)

The insolent attorney being addressed and condemned for his mercenary lies and attacks on the press.

### [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/xix)

Subject of the epitaph; a person of rich talents who cared only for the ace.

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