LaBatte Character Analysis

LaBatte is the night janitor at the jewel bearing plant. He and Thomas often talk with each other, especially about the ghost of their former classmate, Roderick, who often visits them in the plant at night. By Thomas’s estimation, LaBatte is a very superstitious person. LaBatte also has a history of petty theft, and he plans on stealing from the jewel bearing plant before Thomas warns him not to and gives him some money. LaBatte also briefly converts to Mormonism, though he decides not to go through with it soon after and refuses to be baptized or to see Elnath or Vernon, the Mormon missionaries, again.