# Gilma — Short Fiction character guide

> Gilma in Short Fiction by Kate Chopin.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mista Gilma

**First appearance:** 0051-a-gentleman-of-bayou-t-che

## Snapshot

A strapping nineteen-year-old who loved old Gamiche's farm as home, only to find his room emptied and his place claimed before the body is cold.

## Who they are

For ten years Gilma lived and worked beside Monsieur Gamiche on the hundred-acre plantation, and he alone wept at the funeral. When the dead man's relatives arrive from Caddo, his belongings are piled on the back gallery and Ma'me Brozé walks the yard with her nose in the air. His fury at this quiet dispossession—and his love for every fence and shrub—sets the terms of a struggle over what a home can be owed to those who tend it.

## In the story

### [Dead Men's Shoes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_33_se/chapters/dead-men-s-shoes)

The young man who lived with Monsieur Gamiche for ten years; after Gamiche's death, he is displaced by relatives and fights to keep his horse, later learning he is the sole heir.

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