Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2016-07-24 09:42
The children of the farmer from whom Ike steals feed have grown up and gone off to pursue different careers: "professional nurse, ward heeler, city barber, prostitute" (211).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2016-07-24 09:39
This man owns the farm where Ike Snopes finds food for his cow. He is a "man past middleage" with a "grim and puritanical affinity for abstinence and endurance" (211); angry at the loss of his feed and a feed basket, he angrily pursues Ike through the woods.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-07-23 22:55
Throughout The Hamlet there is a steady flow of tradesmen, drummers, farmers, and other wayfarers who stay at Mrs. Littlejohn's. This entry represents the majority of them, who are not individualized in any way.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-07-23 22:52
Ratliff's revulsion at the idea of Eula Varner being married to Flem Snopes leads him to imagine what Flem's idea of sex is; the result is a disturbing image that probably tells us more about Ratliff than about Flem or anyone else: sex as a kind of business transaction with a "black brute from the field with the field sweat still drying on her" (181) who wants "a nickel's worth of lard" from the store (180).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-07-23 22:45
This "Prince" is apparently the son of the original Satan, "the Prince's pa" (168). He is out-connived by Flem Snopes, who ends up in possession of Hell.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-07-23 22:43
The fancy buggy that was once used to court Eula Varner ends up as the property of "a negro farm-hand" who eventually marries and "gets a family" (165).
