"The ragged unshaven lieutenant who leads the broken companies" of the Confederate brigade that has to retreat through Jefferson after losing a battle outside the town in 1864 (49). His appearance catches the eye of the jailer's daughter, who marries him "six months later" (49).
According to Gavin Stevens, "all the men" who first came to Jefferson worked together to build it, "to shape a land for their posterity" (49); according to this account, "the jailer then" or the "innkeeper or farrier or vegetable peddler" could be "what the lawyer and planter and doctor and parson called a gentleman" (49). Note that this definition of "all the men" leaves out the ones who were enslaved.
Sitting in the Square, Chick watches the "crowd" of movie-goers exit the theater, "blinking into the light," "bringing back into the shabby earth a fading remnant of the heart's celluloid and derring dream" (33).
MacCallums or McCallums (Faulkner spells the name both ways) appear in a number of Yoknapatawpha fictions. They live in the northeast corner of the county, which in this novel is identified as Beat Four. When the narrative lists the people in that area from whom the Sheriff has to seek votes, it says "Gowries and Ingrums and Workitts and McCallums" (33), though in the other fictions the economic and social standing of this family is considerably higher than the others. One McCallum, Buddy, plays an offstage part in the story.
On a typical evening, one would see "Negro girls and women" outside the window of the jail, talking with the black men who are confined inside it (38). Even though the exceptional circumstances of the story have kept them away and in hiding, the narrator describes them as "the women in the aprons of cooks or nurses and the girls in their flash cheap clothes from the mail order houses" (50).
The five other black men in the county jail where Lucas is held are described by the narrative as the "crap-shooters and whiskey-peddlers and razor-throwers" who are kept in a single large room on the second floor (30). Some of these prisoners are assigned to what the narrative calls the "street gang" that works outside the jail maintaining town property (54).
The novel refers often to both the extended Gowrie clan and the larger white population of Beat Four as a specific sociological entity. The phrase "Gowries and Ingrums and Workitts" identifies the three largest familial groups in that area of Yoknapatawpha (28), though members of these families have intermarried repeatedly over the generations too. (Twice the novel adds "Frasers" to this list of names, 145, 146; another time it adds "McCallums," 33).
