character sketch of garoghlanian family
The Garoghlanian​ family was extremely poor, they had no money, of Armenian descent, the whole tribe was poverty-stricken. Every branch of the family lived in the most amazing and comical poverty in the world. No one had a clue as to how they ever got the means or the money to keep food in their bellies, not even the old men of the family. But most important of all, they were famed for their honesty. They had been famous for their honesty for the last eleven centuries and even when they had been the wealthiest family at one point of time. They were proud first, honest next, and after that they believed in the distinction between right and wrong. No one from the family would every take advantage of another person, let alone steal. The family also had eccentric characters like Uncle Khosrove. The narrator mentions Uncle Khosrove with regard to his cousin Mourad who took after his uncle in his disposition. In his family, Mourad was considered to be the spiritual descendant of his uncle. Uncle Khosrove was an enormous man with a powerful head of black hair and the largest moustache in the San Joaquin Valley. He was also furious in his temperament, extremely irritable and impatient such that he stopped anyone from talking by roaring: It is no harm; pay no attention to it. It did not matter what the circumstances were, that would be his refrain to everything.​