Who is Dolphs Raymond in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Answer 1

Dolphus Raymond is the town "drunk". He lives with the black community and people do not find that socially acceptable. He always drinks something out of a paper bag using a straw; the town automatically assumes that it is some sort of alcohol. Truly, he is drinking Coca-Cola, but he acts like a drunk to give the town a reason for his actions.

Answer 2

Dolphus Raymond is a white man who married a black woman and has biracial children. Also, everyone thinks that he is a drunk, but he tells Scout and Jem that he's not. He actually carries Coke around and acts drunk so people can use that as a justification for him being married to a black woman, which was not the social norm at the time.

He is a white man that lives with African Americans and the thing is, is that he carries around a Coke bottle in a paper bag so everyone thinks that he is a drinker when in reality he is not. He wants people to accept him the way he is and he wants them to think that there is no way of changing him. He tells this to Scout and Dill because they are just children and they will actually understand more than adults.
Dolphus Raymond is a very unique character throughout the novel. This is because of his social status and in particular, his thoughts and beliefs. Dolphusis a wealthy and fairly well-educated white man. He was engaged to a white woman, one of the Spencers, but she committed suicide on the wedding day for which only Dolphus knew why. This greatly affected his views on society and social events. This may also be why Dolphus prefers black people over white people. He dislikes the way that white people are hypocritical and generally prejudiced and so he feels more comfortable being with blacks. He has a black wife named Helen. He has three children with her but only lives with one of them because he has sent the older two children to the North because racism was not as significant in North America. Dolphus Raymond likes simplicity and therefore pretends that he is an alcoholic so that people can blame the alcohol for his way of living. To a white person living in the area at the time, marrying a black person would be something that is unacceptable. By pretending that he is an alcoholic, people would think that he made the decision to marry a black person because he was an alcoholic who was always drunk and could not make a rational decision.
Mr Raymond isn't a black man in fact he is a white man who married a black woman and lived in the black community. Jem has heard a story that Mr Raymond is always drunk. (However, we learn later that this is just an act.)

Answer 3

Some peculiar things about Mr. Dolphus Raymond are that he prefers sitting with the African Americans because he feels more comfortable with them, instead of with the haughty whites of Maycomb. Also, everyone knows him as the town drunk who married a black woman. Turns out, he lives a happy life and isn't a drunk; he simply drinks Coca Cola and merely pretends to be a drunk since he married a black woman (it's frowned upon for a white man to marry a black woman in Maycomb, Alabama).

Answer 4

"When I come to town, […] if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond's in the clutches of whiskey - that's why he won't change his ways. He can't help himself, that's why he lives the way he does"

Answer 5

There is no character named Dolphs Raymond in "To Kill a Mockingbird." Perhaps you may be thinking of Dolphus Raymond, who is a wealthy white man in Maycomb who pretends to be a drunkard to avoid criticism and social ostracization for associating with African Americans.

Answer 6

Dolphus Raymond lives and had children with a coloured woman. He is also constantly drinking and hanging around with the coloured people even though he is white.

Answer 7

She's the one who confuses Maycomb's neat social and racial categories.

Answer 8

Most of his description is in Ch 16.