The characters / Recurring character
Vic Trenton
Vic Trenton is recorded in 2 distinct storys.
Cujo depicts Vic's connection to the Camber garage and Trenton family. Rattlesnakes identifies its narrator as Vic Trenton, an advertising copywriter, and explicitly recalls Tad and Donna's ordeal. Rattlesnakes narrator Vic Trenton identifies his advertising career and revisits the same wife Donna and son Tad tragedy in Cujo.
Also recorded as Victor Trenton.
Stories and supporting passages
Cujo
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
On that early Monday evening Vic Trenton and Roger Breakstone sat in the third row of the screening room, jackets off, ties pulled down. They had watched the kinescopes of the Sharp Cereal Professor commercials five times each. There were exactly twenty of them. Of the twenty, three were the infamous Red Razberry Zingers spots.
Rattlesnakes narrator Vic Trenton identifies his advertising career and revisits the same wife Donna and son Tad tragedy in Cujo.
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
A final story that week carried the news that Victor Trenton had no intention of suing the surviving members of the Camber family, who were said to be in 'deep shock'. This intelligence was scant, but provided a pretext upon which the entire tale could be rehashed.
Victor is Vic Trenton’s full name; Cujo’s surviving husband and Rattlesnakes’s first-person narrator share the Trenton family history.
Rattlesnakes
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
She stopped, and I remembered Greg asking me if her problem—that’s what he called it—would give me a problem. I said it wouldn’t, but now I wondered. “Hello. I think you must be Mrs. Bell. My name is Vic Trenton. I’m staying at Greg’s house for awhile.” “A friend of Greg’s?
Rattlesnakes narrator Vic Trenton identifies his advertising career and revisits the same wife Donna and son Tad tragedy in Cujo.
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
The receptionist put me on hold, then came back and said Officer Zane was off-duty until the following Monday. I knew better than to ask for a cop’s personal number, so instead asked the dispatcher to please tell him Victor Trenton had called, and would he please call back?
Victor is Vic Trenton’s full name; Cujo’s surviving husband and Rattlesnakes’s first-person narrator share the Trenton family history.