Unnamed Negro Yardman
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Yardman
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Yardman
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Sales and Service
Specific Job:
Yardman
First Mentioned:
Biography:
This man who works in "the yard" of the Memphis orphanage is never named, and appears in the novel only through the story that Doc Hines tells Hightower in Jefferson (383). But when, according to Hines' story, the young Joe Christmas asks him "How come you are a nigger?" (383) his anger is memorable and the response he makes is portentous. Though at first he calls Christmas a "little white trash bastard," he adds, "You are worse than that. You dont know what you are. And more than that, you wont never know . . ." (384).
Individual or Group:
Individual
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