The Gunslinger

    Whenever I think of Jewel I see a young Clint Eastwood saying "Get three coffins ready." Jewel is just a total badass with a temper. He would have fit into any Sergio Leone spaghetti western. Unfortunately for him, he is stuck with the Bundrens. Quite possibly the most unimpressive family in Mississippi. Jewel has everything to make a great western flick. A complete outcast and bastard son who is on a mission to finish his dying mothers last wish (according to Anse). Sadly, his opposition is not some Mexican gang it is his family. Whenever Jewel gets closer to fulfilling this image it seems something inevitably ruins it for him. He has a horse he is trying to break and when he finally does his father sells it. When you think he will finally break off from the family and become a lone ranger of sorts he saves his mother's coffin and is seriously burned in the process. 

    Jewel is one of the few family members that actually seems to notice what people probably think of them, but Jewel being Jewel, doesn't care. He is almost like the older brother to the family. He is the one that will stick up for them but he hates being with them. He has no reason to stay and yet he does. There is nothing compelling Jewel and there is no reason why he can't leave. He stays because he still wants to help his family even if some know that he is not exactly blood.