Who is Gareth Randolph from For the Sake of Elena and what is their importance? For_the_Sake_of_Elena English & Literature Gareth Randolph | For the Sake of Elena

Gareth Randolph is a deaf student at Cambridge University. Randolph is also the founder of DeaStu or the deaf student association at Cambridge. Randolph is also assigned to be Elena Weaver's mentor for a term in order to help the young woman adjust to life at Cambridge. Randolph believes that being deaf makes one a member of deaf culture.

Gareth has "hair the color of old wet straw" and a wide forehead (pg. 215.) He is rather tall and thin, with a "pallid complexion." His face bears the "scattered pits of old acne scars" (pg. 216.)