Ratcliffe

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Ratcliffe
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Ratcliffe
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Middle Class
Rank: 
Secondary
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Sales and Service
Specific Job: 
Post Trader
Biography: 

Ratcliffe, the post trader, is the first Yoknapatawpha member of a family that would eventually produce V.K. Ratliff, a major character in the fictions, especially the Snopes trilogy. Over the generations between them the family name loses two letters; The Town explains: his descendants "forgot how to spell it Ratcliffe and just spelled it like it sounds" - i.e. Ratliff (338). In Requiem Ratcliffe cooperates with Peabody and Compson to bring about the naming of Jefferson. Ratcliffe suggests that the lost lock be charged to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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