Charles Baker Harris, or as he is more commonly known, Dill, is Rachel Haverford’s nephew, Jem’s best friend, and Scout’s “fiancé”. He comes to Maycomb from Meridian each summer and leaves each fall with a few million new tales of trouble. He is described by Scout as such, “his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him… his blue eyes would lighten and darken; his laugh was sudden and happy; he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his forehead” (Lee 7-8). Dill may be small, but his imagination is enormous. For instance after he shows up hiding under scout’s bed he then decides to sleep there with her, and they talk about getting a baby. Dill said “There is a man… who has
