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Junior Stubbs
Mr. Merle Stubbs is the husband of Mrs. Stubbs and the father of Junior Stubbs, who works at his father’s insurance agency. In “The Phantom Brakeman,” the Stubbses show up at Grandma’s house demanding that Grandma help them foil Junior Stubbs’s plan to elope with Vandalia Eubanks. The Stubbses are wealthy town people, and the Stubbs parents disapprove of the romance, worried it will tarnish their reputation. Grandma, of course, has no patience for the Stubbses’ haughtiness and refuses to help them.
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Mr. Merle Stubbs Character Timeline in A Long Way from Chicago
The timeline below shows where the character Mr. Merle Stubbs appears in A Long Way from Chicago. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
5. The Phantom Brakeman
...introduces himself as Junior Stubbs. Junior shows Joe his business card, which advertises his dad Merle Stubbs ’s insurance company. Joe warily insists that Grandma won’t want to buy anything, but Junior...
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...whispering that Junior will be at the cobhouse that night. Grandma gruffly tells the man— Merle Stubbs , it turns out—that she’s not interested in buying anything. Merle explains that Junior has...
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