5.2 Tyler Stanford
Tyler Stanford is the oldest son of Harry Stanford. Tyler is not good looking boy like his father. Tyler has none of his father’s charisma or
attractiveness. Tyler Stanford is a short, slightly overweight man with sharp calculating eyes and a hard mouth. His outstanding feature is a deep, sonorous
voive, perfect for pronouncing sentence. Tyler Stanford is a private man who kept his thoughts to himself.
It can be seen quoted below:
Tyler looked down at the defendant and said,” court cannot find any extenuating circumstances in this case.
You are herewith sentenced to five years at Dwight Correctional Center. Next case” Sidney Sheldon,
Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 49; 129. He is forty years old, but he looks much older than his years. He prides
himself on having no sense humor. Life is too grim for levity. His only hobby is playing chess, arth once a week. He plays at a local club, where he invariably
wins. When Tyler is graduate from Law School, he can practise in Boston, and
because of the family name he would have been welcomed on the boards of dozens of companies, but he prefers to get far away from his father. He decides to
set up a law practice in Chicago. In the beginning, it is difficult. He refuses to trade on his family name, and clients are scarce. Chicago politics are run by the
Machine, and Tyler very quikcly learn that it will be advantageous for a young lawyer to become involve with the powerful central Cook Country Lawyers
Association. He is give a job with the district attorney’s office. He has a keen
Universitas Sumatera Utara
mind and is a quick study, and it is not long before he becomes invaluable to them. He prosecutes felons accused of every conceivable crime, and his record of
convictions is phenomenal. He rise rapidly through the ranks, and finally the day copme when he receive his reward. He is appoint Cook Country CircuitCourt
Judge. Tyler is a brilliant jurist, held in high esteem by his fellow judges, who
often come to him for advice. Very few people are aware that he is one of the Stanfords. He never mentions his father’s name.
The judge’s chambers are in the large Cook Country Criminal Court Building at tweentysixth and California streets, a fourteen-storey stone edifice
with steps leading up to the front entarance. It is in a dangerous neigborhood, and a notice outside stated: By judical, All persons enter this building shall submit to
search. This is where Tyler spends his days, hearing cases involving robbery, bulgary, rape, shooting, drugs and murders. Ruthless in his decisions, he becomes
known as the Hanging Judge. All day long he lists to defendants pleading poverty, child abuse, broken homes, and a hundreed other excuses. He accepts none of
them. A crime is a crime and has to be punished. Tyler Stanford’s fellow judges know very little about his personal life.
They know that he has a bitter mariage and has divorce now, and that he lives alone in a small three-bedroom Gregorian house on Kimbark Avenue in Hyde
Park. The area is surround by beautiful old homes, because the great fire of 1871 that razes Chicago has whimsically spared the a Hyde Park district. He makes no
friends in the neigborhood, and his neighbors knows nothing about him. He has a
Universitas Sumatera Utara
housekeeper who come in three times a week, but Tyler do the shopping himself. He is a methodical man with a fixed routine. On Saturday, he goes to Harper
Court, a small shopping mall near his home, or to Mr. G’s Fine Foods or Medici’s on Fifty-seventh street.
From time to time, at official gatherings, Tyler will meet the wives of his fellow jurists. They sense that he is lonely, and they offer to intrduce him to
women friends or invite him to dinner. He is decline, “ I’m busy that evening”. His evenings seem to be full, but they have no idea what he is doing with them. “
Tyler is not interest in anything but the law”, one of the judges explain to his wife. “ He is just not interest in meeting any women yet. I hear he has a terrible
marriage”. He is right. After divorce, Tyler has swear to himself that he will never become
emotionally involve again. And then, he has meet Lee, and everything has suddenly change. Lee is beautiful, sensitive, and caring, the one Tyler want to
spend the rest of his life with.tyler loves Lee. The fact, Lee is a boy and Tyler is tease his father because of his sexual orientation a deviant. From the age of
twelve, Tyler has know he is homosexual. One day, his father looks him fondling and kissing a boy from his school.
It can be seen quoted below:
Father’s word on that terrible day, “ Can beleive I have a son, who’s a faggot That I know your dirty little secret,
I’m going to keep a close eye on you ” Sidney Sheldon, Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 49; 114.
Universitas Sumatera Utara
5.3 Kendall Stanford
Kategori