A Gathering of Old Men | Themes and Characters
With over fifty characters, most of whom are developed enough to go through significant changes in behavior tied to values, and with fourteen different narrators, A Gathering of Old Men might seem to be a long novel even though the book is just over two hundred pages long. Gaines helps us keep track of these characters by tying them to particular places and to significant parts of the novel's action: the communities' discovery of the killing of Beau Boutan; the gathering of the old black men in response to Candy's plea; the arrivals of Mapes and his deputy shortly followed by the coroner...
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