Dolphus yells at Dill and makes him cry. Dolphus is angry that Dill peed his pants.
Dolphus makes fun of Dill for being a crybaby that pees himself.
Dolphus Raymond says drinking makes life better.
In Mr. Dolphus Raymond's bottle bag, there is not alcohol, as many assume, but actually just Coca-Cola. He pretends to drink whiskey from it in order to give the townspeople a reason to explain his behavior of siding with African Americans.
No. Dolphus Raymond never had any whiskey at all. It was Coca-Cola.
Dolphus Raymond is a fictional character in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. He is not a real person, so his age is not specified.
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Mr. Dolphus Raymond
Dolphus Raymond understands that Dill is crying because Mr. Gilmer is being so condescending to Tom. While Dolphus does all he can to comfort Dill, he tells Dill that he (Dill) had better get used to it, because this is the way that whites treat blacks (and white who chose to associate with blacks). Dolphus doesn't have the optimistic outlook that Atticus and Miss Maudie seem to possess--that life and society can get better if people just learn that blacks are humans with feelings and rights just like whites.
Mr. Dolphus Raymond gave Dill a drink of Coca-Cola to settle his stomach. However, he led others to believe that he was drinking alcohol, when in fact it was only Coca-Cola in a bottle.
Most of his description is in Ch 16.
Dill assumed that Dolphus Raymond was poor white trash because he saw him drinking out of a bottle wrapped in a paper bag, which was uncommon behavior for wealthy white people in Maycomb. Dolphus Raymond intentionally perpetuated this image to provide an explanation for his unconventional lifestyle choices and to protect himself from the judgment of others.
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