His characters had some of the same basic traits, but Fields varied the amount of cynicism and ill-temperedness. His profession forces some civility upon him. He waits on customers with a fair modicum of patience. But the customers are insufferable. One customer orders a box of cough drops and expects it to be delivered 18 miles outside of town.
Fields gladly cuts the stamp out of the sheet.
He seems to genuinely like his son, and they have a good relationship. But his wife is a different story entirely. He purses her lips and complains constantly. Fields submits to the daggers that her eyes cast. This Fields is a blowhard who tells whopping fibs.