Dean Makepeace emerges in the final chapter of the book as another protagonist character alongside the narrator. Dean Makepeace resigns from his post at the school a day before taking the expulsion action on the book's narrator. The reader is informed of his reasons which in such short of a passage accumulate to be as interesting as the narrators story and how the book concludes on his story and not the narrator.
Dean Makepeace could not settle to the new lifestyle with his sister (Margaret) and after realizing how attached he had become to the environment of his former school, he feels convinced to return with all odds against him. Obviously he could not return as Dean, though being a teacher satisfied that desire equally. The final sentence of this novel, 'His father, when he saw him coming, ran to meet him' (page 195) left me thinking for a while who the father was and who the son was between the new Dean and Makepeace. The quote contributed the importance of Makepeace's forty years as Dean which became his real life.
Dean Makepeace could not settle to the new lifestyle with his sister (Margaret) and after realizing how attached he had become to the environment of his former school, he feels convinced to return with all odds against him. Obviously he could not return as Dean, though being a teacher satisfied that desire equally. The final sentence of this novel, 'His father, when he saw him coming, ran to meet him' (page 195) left me thinking for a while who the father was and who the son was between the new Dean and Makepeace. The quote contributed the importance of Makepeace's forty years as Dean which became his real life.
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