The characters / Recurring character
Elmer Chambers
Elmer Chambers is recorded in 5 distinct storys.
Jake’s father Elmer is consistently connected to the boy’s school, home, desk ammunition and dismissive parental comments.
Stories and supporting passages
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
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The fact that Jake had been accepted there had nothing to do with money, Elmer Chambers explained . . . almost insisted.
Jake recalls his father’s pride in his school acceptance.
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
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Eddie shook a couple of shells from the box that had come from behind the hanging files in Elmer Chambers’s desk drawer. “They’re from your world and they won’t block out the sound. Don’t ask me how I know that; I just do.
The ammunition is identified as coming from Elmer’s desk drawer.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
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“You mean they make you stoned?” Jake asked, rather uneasily. He was thinking of his father. Elmer Chambers had enjoyed many of the weirder things in life. “Stoned? I’m not sure I-” “Buzzed. High. Seeing things.
Jake thinks of his father Elmer’s drug use.
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
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… him that now, to top off a career of losing things, he’d lost his wife, heard some man (probably Elmer Chambers) telling Jake that Jake had gone crazy, he was fou, he was Monsieur Lunatique. More voices joined in, and more, and more. Henchick nodded sharply to …
A hostile voice is only probably Elmer’s; this supports a reference, not a confirmed manifested appearance.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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He didn’t think the washerboy was terribly bright (“No quiz-kid,” Elmer Chambers would no doubt have sneered), but he was at least smart enough to be homesick; in spite of his terror, Jake saw an unmistakable flash of that look in …
Jake imagines the dismissive expression his father would use.