Ike McCaslin

Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sun, 2015-02-01 13:29
Text: 
"The Old People"
Character Key: 
Isaac McCaslin
Display Name: 
Ike McCaslin
Sort Name: 
McCaslin, Ike
AKA: 
Uncle Ike
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
McCaslin
Family (new): 
McCaslinsInOLD
First Mentioned: 
Fishing Camp|Hunting Camp in "The Old People" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"Delta Autumn"
"Fool About a Horse"
"Lion"
"Race at Morning"
"The Bear"
Go Down, Moses
The Mansion
The Reivers
The Town
The Unvanquished
Biography: 

Uncle Ike McCaslin is a significant figure in several other stories by Faulkner, best known as the central character of Go Down, Moses (1942). "The Old People" appears, in revised form, in that novel. In the magazine version of "The Old People," however, Ike is a minor character: one of the hunters who gather each November in the big woods. The fact that the narrator refers to him as "Uncle" Ike (205) may mean they are related, but he is probably using the word as an honorary title, as characters in other stories also do with Ike.

Property Status: 
owns land
owns house
Financial Status: 
controls substantial wealth
Social Status: 
has influential social contacts (family, business, political)
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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