Character Profile

Thad Beaumont is an ex-alcoholic who currently lives with his wife and kids, the twins William and Wendy. He lived two lived some years when he was writing as another man, a man that wasn’t a very nice one. Now he hasn’t drunk in years and he has just buried the pseudonym which made him an unpleasant man to be around. He is short-tempered but has a warm and welcoming heart and a man that is loved.

Thad Beaumont was born in 1949 and is 44 years old when this story is told. The book doesn’t describe a lot of his physical features but we get to know how he acts by the way King writes. “He was a gentle man, but strangely clumsy; that part of the boy he had been still lived in him” he writes in the beginning of the book which tells us that maybe his clumsiness is going to do more in the book than we know. He may be thin because it says that he has lost some weight, but he could also still be normal sized. He is about 6,1 and has shoe size ten and we only get to know this because they needed it in the investigations in the book. Stephen King doesn’t describe him as anything special.

In the main time period of the book Thad is confused and tired. In the beginning he is troubled by the fact that he has buried George Stark and he can’t smile without forcing it. He is really a kind person and he’s good to anyone, even if he’s clumsy. He may seem a bit cold and somewhat distant but his good nature puts up to that. When he was writing as George Stark he changed. He became more isolated from his wife, and he was grumpy and didn’t really like to talk. He was alcoholic and he had trouble with that later in his life.

The only thing that makes Thad Beaumont stay in his home and not run a way is his wife and his twins William and Wendy. He knows that George Stark is after him, but he can’t just run away from the people that he loves the most. He is severely confused when it comes to what he shall do about the mess he’s in. He knows that Stark may come after his family so he tries nearly desperately to find a way to catch him without leaving his family behind and run. The psychological aspect of Thad makes the book really exciting because there are no way you can know what he’ll do next and how he will react. He is a complex person and he is a heroic person in the loving way. Which basically means that he loves those who is close to him and will do everything he can to protect them.