Alnilam | Characters
A surrogate for the inquisitive reader, cantankerous, misanthropic Frank Cahill is the device by which Dickey provides entry into the Army Air Corps training base in Peckover. Cahill's quest for the truth about his dead son provides the pretext for introducing each of the other characters, as well as for meditations on life, death, and love. Cahill is also important for providing an outsider's perspective, that of a blind old civilian among mostly young recruits, thereby emphasizing the theme of the elusiveness of truth.
The most important character in Alnilam, Joel...
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