Bull_Meecham

Bull Meecham In the novel The Great Santini by Pat Conroy, the reader meets the main character, Bull Meecham. Bull Meechem had many outstanding traits good and awful. Bull Meechem can be mistakenly called a racist though he is truly an abusive father, and yet he is courageous and honorable at times of war and then at moment before his death. Bull’s male desire to have control over his family often gets the best of him, the reader witnesses him physically and mentally attacking his family in drunken rages control for self confidence and for just pure dominance. Throughout the novel Bull expresses how at times he acts like how he believed white southerners should act by making degrading comments to African Americans. The reader also is able to see the image of an American dream when they experience Bull serving in the Marine Corps. Bull Meechem was born in Chicago he married Lillian and then moved down south. When living their Bull was influenced by some aspects of southerners, “You hear me' Keep out of that nigger shit.” Bull Meechem is not really a racist but he has just taken on southern life and believes it’s accepted. bull, meechem, family, lillian, reader, racist, times, others, just, fit, choice, before, wife, wanted, tried, though, struck, southerners, south, sons, slept, self, save, over, out, novel, needed, moment, mary, marine, man, mama, male, life, kids