Who is Tony Wilson from The Easter Parade: A Novel and what is their importance?

Tony Wilson is Sarah's husband. When they first begin dating, everyone is mesmerized by Tony's good looks and his English reared charms. When Tony dresses in odd attire to support Sarah during an Easter Parade, everyone believes he is a good man. However, what everyone does not know is that Tony is an unhappy man who beats his wife. For more than twenty years Sarah submits to his beatings, afraid to turn to anyone for help. When she does, Tony does not seem to care, laboring under the belief that it is his right to do whatever he wants to his wife. In fact, when Sarah dies, Tony becomes drunk and jovial at her funeral and the reception afterward. In the end, Tony suffers in a terrible car accident and marries a woman much stronger and more opinionated than Sarah ever was.