During the Saturday evening that Lucius is at Miss Reba's, he hears "the bass rumble" of the men who patronize the brothel, but they are not seen or described with any other details (130).
The novel refers to other prostitutes at Miss Reba's, besides Corrie and the two "ladies" whom Lucius meets at supper (106). Lucius can hear them meeting customers in the parlor on Saturday night. When the adult Lucius who is telling the story calls them "ladies" and "nymphs" (130), he is being pleasantly (rather than judgmentally) ironic.
Sam Caldwell's uncle is a "division superintendent" on the railroad line Same works for (130). A typical "division superintendent" is in charge of a fairly large section of a railroad company's track.
A regular customer of Miss Corrie's, Sam Caldwell is a "flagman" on "the Memphis Special," a train that runs to New York (127). He owes his job to his uncle, a "division superintendent" on the rail line (127), but shows himself as generous and kind when he helps the adventurers smuggle their horse to Parsham and again throughout their misadventures once they get there. Lucius says he is "almost as big as Boon" (135), and Boon sees him as a rival for Corrie's affections.
This icon represents the "street- and assessment commissioners" with whom Mr. Binford negotiates and the policemen he pays off as part of his responsibilities as the man of Miss Reba's house (111).
This icon represents the "liquor dealers," "grocers and coal merchants," "plumbers," "newspaper boy" and other tradesman and laborers with whom Mr. Binford negotiates as part of his responsibilities as the man of Miss Reba's house (111).
Work "gangs" in Faulkner's fiction are often black, but the one described as "laying a sewer line" in Memphis is presumably white, since Mr. Binford is found working as part of it on one of his self-imposed absences from Miss Reba (112).
According to Lucius Priest, Mr. Binford's "official" title is "landlord" (110). The "harder and more contemptuous name" he would be called by most others is 'pimp,' though Lucius doesn't specifically say so. He is a little man, but there is something menancing about him; the first thing you notice about him, Lucius says, is "his eyes . . . because the first thing you found out was that he was already looking at you" (104). He dresses like a gentleman, but calls the prostitutes who work for him and Reba "bitches" while claiming to teach them "to act like ladies" (107).
Otis tells Lucius that Corrie (whose full first names are "Everbe Corinthia") is named for his "Grandmaw" (153). Since he is identified as Corrie's nephew, it seems likely that this woman is also her mother, or as Otis calls her, her "maw"; she died when Corrie herself was a young girl (153).
