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Frank Hayden
Grandpa Hayden is a bigoted and potentially violent man who favors his son Frank over his other son Wesley. He knows about Frank’s abuse of Sioux women, but his only concern is that Frank will father a non-white child. He is furious when Wesley arrests Frank, not because he believes that Frank is innocent but rather because he considers the crimes, perpetrated as they were against “Indians,” to be unimportant. He is a very powerful man in Mercer County, and Grandpa Julian’s influence is one of the main reasons Wesley believes Frank will never be convicted of his crimes.
Grandpa Hayden (Julian) Quotes in Montana 1948
The Montana 1948 quotes below are all either spoken by Grandpa Hayden (Julian) or refer to Grandpa Hayden (Julian). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes
The sheriff of Mercer County was elected, but such was my grandfather’s popularity and influence—and the weight of the Hayden name—that it was enough for my grandfather to say…now I want my son to have this job…It would never have occurred to my father to refuse.
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Chapter 2 Quotes
“You know what your granddad said it means to be a peace officer in Montana? He said it means knowing when to look and when to look away.”
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Chapter 3 Quotes
I suddenly felt sorry for my father—not as he stood before me at that moment, but as a boy. What must it have been like to have a father capable of speaking to you like that?
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“Screwing an Indian. Or feeling her up or whatever. You don’t lock up a man for that. You don’t lock up your brother. A respected man. A war hero.”
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Grandpa Hayden (Julian) Character Timeline in Montana 1948
The timeline below shows where the character Grandpa Hayden (Julian) appears in Montana 1948. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
David tries to explain his mother’s thinking. Grandpa Julian Hayden (Wesley’s father) had once been Sheriff of Mercer county for many terms, along...
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...Wesley is dull in comparison to Frank, who is favored by everyone in town including Grandpa Hayden, who sometimes speaks of Frank as though he is his only son. David remembers...
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...God with because he used up all his faith and loyalty on his “earthly father,” Grandpa Hayden.
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Chapter 2
The following Sunday, David and his parents are on their way to Grandpa Hayden’s house. Gail and Wesley had fought about going—Gail hadn’t wanted to accept the invitation...
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When they arrive at Grandpa’s house, Frank’s car is already parked out front. The house is large and expensively decorated...
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Grandpa Hayden greets them in a traditional western shirt and a cowboy boots. When David sees...
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David hears his father ask Grandpa Hayden if he has a minute to talk about Frank. David has the brief hope...
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...has heard his Grandfather say something about Frank and Native American girls. At Frank’s wedding, Grandpa Hayden had said “now he’s got a good-looking white woman for a wife. That better...
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...watching over Marie, whose condition has improved remarkably. David tells Marie about hunting coyotes at Grandpa’s, and she remarks that coyotes are hard to find when you’re looking for them. These...
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...wagon for many years. He tells David to sit down, and says to him that Grandpa Hayden always told him that being deputy sheriff in this town means knowing when to...
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Chapter 3
That night Grandpa and Grandma Hayden come to the house demanding to know where Frank is (Gloria has...
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...sent upstairs but he listens to the conversation through an air vent in the kitchen. Julian demands to know why Wesley would throw Frank in jail for “beating up some Indian.”...
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Julian tells Wesley to “stop this before I have to.” Wesley does not respond. Grandma Hayden...
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...employees, Dale Paris, in the truck, and thinks the other men are also employees of Grandpa Hayden. He tells his mother and she gets worried, and tells him to call his...
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Epilogue
...best, as Frank had never been proven guilty in a court of law. Wesley and Grandpa Hayden did not speak to each other at the funeral, nor after. Wesley agreed with...
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Len and Grandpa Hayden have both died of strokes—David wonders if the strokes were caused by their keeping...
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