Jimbo

Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sat, 2015-01-31 21:56
Text: 
"The Old People"
Character Key: 
Jimbo
Display Name: 
Jimbo
Sort Name: 
Jimbo
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Domestic Service
Specific Job: 
Cook
First Mentioned: 
Tree Stand in "The Old People" (Location)
Biography: 

Jimbo helps Uncle Ash with the cooking and with the blood hounds on Major de Spain's yearly hunting trips into the big woods. He is a trusted member of the hunting party. (When Faulkner re-tells the events of "The Old People" in Go Down, Moses, Jimbo is replaced by a man named "Tennie's Jim" (160) who turns out later in the novel to be James Beauchamp, one of the Negro descendants of Carothers McCaslin. But it's unlikely that as Faulkner wrote this story he was thinking of a spot for Jimbo on the McCaslin family tree.)

Financial Status: 
poor (controls limited wealth)
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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