David McIntosh Character Analysis in The Warmth of Other Suns

– David McIntosh is one of the two men, along with George Gladney, who falls in love with Ida Mae when she’s a young woman in Mississippi and visits her every Sunday in an attempt to woo her. She ends up choosing George, but at the end of her life, she visits David on her trip back to Mississippi with Wilkerson.

David McIntosh Character Timeline in The Warmth of Other Suns

The timeline below shows where the character David McIntosh appears in The Warmth of Other Suns. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...Mae is 15, two suitors in their twenties start visiting her every Sunday after church. David McIntosh has a horse, so he arrives first, while the quieter George Gladney—who walks miles to... (full context)

...church cemetery, but Ida Mae insists that she’ll be buried in Chicago. Lastly, they visit David McIntosh , the man who used to visit Ida Mae on horseback every Sunday and wanted... (full context)