This is the "long-haul" truck driver who patronizes the all-night cafe in Jefferson and so can, at least hypothetically, let the the town's night marshal know whenever his phone is ringing (206).
Another of the novel's "crowds" (122). These spectators at the football game in the Mottstown high school stadium are divided between the people who "sit in the grandstand" and "the ones trotting and even running up and down the sideline following each play" (122).
The narrator calls the Jefferson high school football team that travels to Mottstown "the regular team" (121), which presumably means the varsity. After their victory, three of them return to Jefferson in the car that Chick's mother hired.
This "mother" is mentioned only as one possible reason why a starting player on the high school football team doesn't play in the game against Mottstown (121).
The "regular player" on the Jefferson high school football team whose place Chick takes for the game in Mottstown (121). He may not be able to play due to injury, or academic ineligibility, or an over-protective mother - the narrator offers all three possibilities.
This icon represents the group that the narrator refers to (twice) as "the young men and some not so young" (27, 39) who "work hard all week [hanging around] in the poolhall" (39). They are also identified with the barber shop, and on ordinary evenings after the movie ends at least some of them can be found "drinking coca cola and playing nickels into the drugstore jukebox" (208). Some of them "have some vague connection with cotton or automobiles or land- and stock-sales"; all of them bet on "prize fights and punchboards and national ballgames" (39).
There are several different kinds of crowds in Intruder in the Dust. This icon represents the country people, "from the distant circumambient settlements and crossroads stores and isolate farms," who regularly come in to Jefferson to shop and do other kinds of business. The last chapter opens with Chick watching them from the window of his uncle's office: "people black and white" (231), "men and women and children too then and the old people and the babies and the young couples" (230).
While "Lawyer" Stevens and Sheriff Hampton seem to take charge of the events in Jefferson, the narrative does remind readers that the town and county have the usual elected officials. The out-of-town architect who wants to buy the jail door takes his request to "the mayor and the alderman and at last the board of supervisors" (54). And Hampton does say he got the mayor's permission to give the night marshal Monday night off (216).
