The characters / Recurring character
Richard Farris (Gwendy’s visitor)
Richard Farris (Gwendy’s visitor) is recorded in 3 distinct storys.
Gwendy’s recurring visitor is identified by his black coat, black hat and connection to her box. The Stand’s older Judge Richard Farris has a different narrative role and no source-established identity bridge here.
Also recorded as Richard Farris.
Stories and supporting passages
Gwendy's Button Box
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“In that case,” says the man in the black coat, “let me introduce myself. I’m Richard Farris. And you are—?” She debates, then thinks, what harm? “Gwendy Peterson.” “So there. We know each other.” Gwendy shakes her head.
The man introduces himself to Gwendy as Richard Farris.
Gwendy's Final Task
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Richard Farris was sitting in the kitchen, waiting for her. Same clothes, same round black hat, but otherwise how he’d changed. He was old. And sick.
The familiar Farris waits in Gwendy’s kitchen, now visibly aged and sick.
Gwendy's Magic Feather
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She thought about Richard Farris and that hat of his more than all the rest of it. It was always the mysterious Mr. Farris that swam closest to the surface of her conscious mind.
Gwendy recalls the mysterious black-coated man and his hat.