Job Wylie

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2017-05-29 15:35
Text: 
"Uncle Willy"
Character Key: 
Job Wylie
Display Name: 
Job Wylie
Sort Name: 
Wylie, Job
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Secondary
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Domestic Service
Specific Job: 
Cook, Housekeeper, Drugstore Porter
First Mentioned: 
Courthouse and Square in "Uncle Willy" (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Wednesday, January 1, 1840 to Wednesday, December 31, 1845
Biography: 

Job Wylie was probably born a slave, owned by the man he still calls "Marse Hoke Christian" (233). He has worked in the Christian family drugstore ever since it opened "in eighteen-fifty-something," and in the present also works as Willy Christian's cook and housekeeper (226). Job is very loyal to the Christian family, though according to the narrator he also embodies Jefferson's "timid clinging to dull and rule-ridden-breathing" (239).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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