Who is Troy Chatham from Jayber Crow: A Novel and what is their importance? Jayber_Crow English & Literature Troy Chatham | Jayber Crow: A Novel

Troy Chatham is a man who is lost in his own delusions and thinks that other people buy his facade, since he, himself believes it. He is overly-ambitious in the sense that he wants to be a star like he was in high school. However, his ambition is not necessarily to be productive, but to become rich and recognized. Thus, he ignores the advice of people who know farming and takes the advice of the kind of people he aspires to be, such as investors and wealthy businessmen. In his desire to make lots of money and to avoid the drudgery that he perceives farming to be, he over-invests, over-cultivates, and finds himself constantly in need of more money, more land and more boosts to his ego than the average person.