Anselm Holland II
Character Key Number:
735
Display Name:
Anselm Holland II
Sort Name:
Holland, Anselm II
Parent Character Key:
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In "Smoke" Anselm Junior is one of the twin sons of Anselm Holland. He seems to have inherited his father's violent misanthropy along with his name, although he "was said to have been the mother’s favorite" (4). He is the first of the twins to break with their father, moving "back into the hills" of Yoknapatawpha (5). He is "a dark, silent, aquiline-faced man" whom "both neighbors and strangers let severely alone" (6).