# Jack McGuire — Spoon River Anthology character guide

> Jack McGuire in Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0044-jack-mcguire

## Who they are

A gambler and drinker who dies in a bar fight.

## Relationships

### [Thomas Rhodes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/characters/thomas_rhodes)

_rivalry_

Jack McGuire was a working-class antagonist who resented Thomas Rhodes' wealth and power.

### [Thomas Rhodes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/characters/thomas_rhodes)

_rivalry_

Jack McGuire was a working-class antagonist who resented Thomas Rhodes' wealth and power.

## In the story

### [The Town Marshal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/the-town-marshal)

Killed the Town Marshal after being struck with a loaded cane.

### [Jack McGuire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/jack-mcguire)

Narrator and subject of the chapter; nearly lynched for killing Marshal Logan, later imprisoned after a legal bargain.

### [Blind Jack](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/blind-jack)

Was riding with Blind Jack and Butch Weldy, roaring drunk, when the horses ran away.

### [Alfred Moir](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/alfred-moir)

Mentioned as someone who killed a man, a fate Alfred Moir avoided.

### [Willie Metcalf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/willie-metcalf)

Mentioned as the source of the claim that Doctor Meyers was Willie's father.

### [The Spooniad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/the-spooniad)

Shoots the town marshal, leading to cries of 'Lynch him!'

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