The two legal giants, Brady and Drummond have very different personalities. Brady shows great leadership qualities and is very confident. “A toast to tomorrow! To the beginning of the trial and the success of our case” (30). He is also very boastful. “There are many portions of the holy Bible that I have submitted to memory” (80). Drummond is also confident but authoritative. “You’ve ruled out all my witnesses. I must be allowed to examine the one witness you’ve left me in my own way” (92). Drummond doesn’t need other people’s support; he works for what he believes in. Drummond helps defend other people’s beliefs. “Then what is Bertram Cates doing in the Hillsboro jail? Suppose Mr. Cates had enough influence and lung power to railroad through the state legislature a law that only Darwin should be taught in the schools” (100). Brady and Drummond’s personalities are remarkably different. Brady craves attention, Drummond doesn’t care.

Whether one cares or one doesn’t, their beliefs are the two main conflicting sides of this play. Therefore, they are incredibly complete opposites. Brady believes literal in the Bible. “Everything in the Bible should be accepted, exactly as it is given there” (87). Brady is also a big man in faith. “We must not abandon faith! Faith is the important thing!” (93). Brady also believes that Cates is evil and that he is doing the country the good by eradicating him. “I know because God tells me to oppose the evil teachings of that man” (99). Drummond believes in freedom of speech and the right to think “Then why did God plague us with the power to think?” (93). “You have no more right to spit on his religion then you have a right to spit on my religion; or lack of it” (125). Brady and Drummond have tremendously different beliefs.

The behaviors of Brady and Drummond contrast a great deal. Brady has a grand presence always around him wherever he goes. “Brady seems to carry with him a built-in spotlight” (19). Brady also needs attention and is dependant on it “This is the final indignity to Brady; he realizes that a great portion of his audience has left him as he watches it go” (119) Drummond’s behavior is more the opposite where he doesn’t crave attention but the attention comes to him because of what he believes in.

Inherit the wind’s main conflict of Creationism versus Evolutionism manifests itself into the two characters Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond. These two are different and they fight for control and their beliefs. Brady must command attention over all while Drummond doesn’t need it but gives answers to everyone’s questions anyway. This play shows how unlike creationism and evolutionism is by making Brady and Drummond nothing like.