Larry Dunn Character Analysis

Larry Dunn is a bully who picks on Kenny and Rufus at school. Because Kenny is related to Byron, though, Larry doesn’t treat him quite as badly as he otherwise might. Still, though, he steals Kenny’s nice leather gloves and roughs him and Rufus up one day when it’s really cold. When Kenny and Rufus tell Byron, he tracks Larry down, takes back the gloves, hits him on the side of the head, and then starts pushing him around in front of a large crowd. As Byron shoves him against a fence time and again, Kenny sees that Larry’s jacket is nothing but a ripped windbreaker over a t-shirt—even though it’s freezing out! When Larry falls down, he sees that the bully’s shoes have large holes in them, suggesting that his family doesn’t have enough money to give him warm clothes for the winter. Although everyone else laughs at Larry, Kenny feels awful and decides to leave, thinking that only Byron could possibly make him feel bad for a bully like Larry Dunn.