Unnamed Negro Coachman(1)
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Coachman(1)
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Coachman(1)
AKA:
Simon Strother
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Strother
Family (new):
Occupation:
Domestic Service
Specific Job:
Coachman
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
The "Negro coachman" drives Colonel Sartoris to the bank every day in a "linen duster and one of the Colonel's old plug hats" (174). This "coachman" is not named in The Mansion, but the details - duster and plug hat - are clear signs that Faulkner is thinking of him as Simon Strother, the coachman who drives Sartoris to and from the bank in Flags in the Dust.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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