Submitted by lorie.watkins@g... on Tue, 2016-08-09 12:50
Stuart is another of Old Anse's sons, and Rafe McCallum's twin. He seems both cautious and matter-of-fact in manner. After Buddy practically amputates his own leg, he says, "Stuart kept warning me about that frame I was using," and Stuart replies, "That's correct" (50).
Submitted by lorie.watkins@g... on Tue, 2016-08-09 12:27
Dead some fifteen years before the time frame of "The Tall Men," Old Anse McCallum is the McCallum family patriarch. He is known for walking from Mississippi to Virginia to enlist in Stonewall Jackson's army when he was just sixteen, an action that seems to be at the root of the family's patriotic pride. After the Civil War ends, he returns to Yoknapatawpha, gets married, builds the "first story" of the house that Faulkner's own story takes place in, and has all those sons to carry on his tradition (54).
Pap is a tenant farmer who has little interest in growing the corn and cotton he is supposed to be cultivating on the land he rents in Frenchman's Bend. Instead, he fancies himself a talented and successful horse- and mule- trader, swapping discarded barbed wire, broken tools, and other people's chattels, but, as his son explains,"he never owned nothing that anybody would swap even a sorry horse for and even to him" (119).
