Otis

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2020-03-13 14:17
Character Key Number: 
3689
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Otis
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Otis
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
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In The Reivers Otis is Corrie's nephew, visiting Memphis from his home in Arkansas in order to acquire "refinement" (97). Although he has his fifteenth birthday in the course of the story, he is smaller than the 11-year-old Lucius. As Lucius says the first time he sees Otis, "there is something wrong about him" (104). By the time Lucius calls him a "demon child" (154), most readers are likely to agree.

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