Otis Harker

Submitted by jbc@ku.edu on Thu, 2017-09-21 14:33
Text: 
The Town
Character Key: 
Otis Harker
Display Name: 
Otis Harker
Sort Name: 
Harker, Otis
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Production
Specific Job: 
Sawmill Operator
First Mentioned: 
Jefferson Municipal Power Plant in The Town (Location)
Biography: 

Otis is "nephew or cousin or something" of the Harker who is the engineer at the town's power plant. Although he has "inherited the saw mill" that the older Harker originally ran, Otis fills in at the power plant "whenever Mr. Harker wanted a night off" (26). By the end of the novel he has become Jefferson's "night marshal"; Gavin Stevens calls him one of Yoknapatawpha's "minor clowns" (334).

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

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