drives:

adventure (before great war)

ennui (after great war)

pillars:

moral code

holds fast to a notion of human worth

the goodness, beauty, and worthiness of nature

sources of stability:

Character concept: great war vet, fallen on hard times from the depression, has turned to crime

born 1898, the second son in a family of seven to new england farmers

is highly educated(sarcasm) having graduated rural high school despite his father's assertion it was a waste of time

he's a hard drinker, and has seen massive death in europe

he was healthier, but was on the edges of a mustard gas attack and has a bit of a breathing problem (not severe)

he is married, and has two children, but he lives in a different house than his wife and constantly has different girlfriends

if there is any organized crime in the area, he most certainly is a low-level trigger-man or bootlegger for them