Roth Edmonds
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Roth Edmonds
Sort Name:
Edmonds, Roth
AKA:
Carothers Edmonds
Roth Edmondziz
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
McCaslin
Family (new):
Occupation:
Management
Specific Job:
Planter
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
A major character in the novel Go Down, Moses (1942), in this story Roth Edmonds is simply one of the hunters who have come from Yoknapatawpha. He is the only member of this group who brought a horse to hunt on, which indicates his higher social caste, and the few words he speaks to the narrator suggest he is as impatient with people he sees as inferior here as he was in the novel.
Note:
He is the son of Zack and Louisa Edmonds, and the great-great-great grandson of Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin. Because Roth’s mother died in childbirth, Molly Beauchamp nursed him. Henry, the son of Lucas and Molly Beauchamp, was Roth’s childhood playmate until Roth came to understand the southern codes of race consciousness and felt he was superior to Henry. Roth owns the McCaslin plantation on which Lucas Beauchamp is a tenant. Roth is one of the hunting party in "Race at Morning." In his forties, Roth has an affair with a young woman who, unbeknownst to him, is also descended from Lucius McCaslin, on the Beauchamp, or 'black,' side of the family. By having a child with her, Roth perpetuates his ancestor’s incest and miscegenation, and similarly fails to claim the child that is produced from that affair as his son.
Property Status:
owns land
owns house
Financial Status:
controls substantial wealth
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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