Perhaps the most despicable character in Breakfast of Champions, and the only character to get “what is coming to [him] in the end.” Don Breedlove, a white man, is a married father of three and works as a gas-conversion unit installer. He rapes seventeen-year-old Patty Keene behind the George Hickman Bannister Memorial Fieldhouse, and he is the father of Gloria Browning’s “destroyed fetus.” Don Breedlove is so hateful that the neighborhood kids pour maple syrup in the gas tank of his car, and when it can’t be fixed, he accuses Dwayne Hoover of selling him “a lemon.” He is at the Holiday Inn servicing a gas oven the night Dwayne goes insane, and he is rendered deaf after Dwayne punches him in the ear.