Rafe MacCallum

A son of Virginius MacCallum, Sr., and twin brother of Stuart. He is named for Raphael Semmes, the Confederate naval officer who commanded the Alabama during the Civil War. He is an old friend of the Sartoris twins, John and Bayard, and tries to help Bayard with his pain by offering homemade whisky and a chance to talk about the war.

Virgil Beard

A "pale, quiet boy of twelve or so" (104), Virgil is the son of the people who own the boarding house where Byron Snopes lives. To disguise his handwriting in the letters he sends Narcissa, Byron gets Virgil to write them by promising to buy him an air rifle. Despite Snopes' attempts to dodge that promise, Virgil is shrewd enough to make sure that he gets his gun - and promptly uses it to kill a mockingbird.

Hub

The young farmer who provides the moonshine that fuels the road trip Young Bayard takes to Oxford. He is married, and has a sister or a daughter named Sue, but his character seems summed up when he tells Suratt that he "dont give a damn" if anyone tells where the whiskey came from (138).

V.K. Suratt

Suratt plays a minor role in Faulkner's first Yoknapatawpha novel, but in time will re-appear in nine more of Faulkner's works, though beginning with "A Bear Hunt" (1934) he is named V. K. Ratliff; Faulkner made the change after a real person named Suratt objected. A traveling salesman, based in Jefferson, who sold mainly sewing machines, but also on occasion parlor organs, radios, and televisions, Suratt grew up on a farm, and was a neighbor of the Snopes family.

Doctor Lucius Peabody

"The fattest man in Yocona" (as Faulkner names the county in this first Yoknapatawpha fiction) and almost ninety (94), Dr. Peabody is a fixture in the lives of many of Faulkner's characters, and the only character to appear in each of the first three Yoknapatawpha novels. Colonel Sartoris' regimental surgeon during the Civil War, he remains a close friend of the family and still practices medicine the old-fashioned way.

Doctor Alford

A "newcomer" to Jefferson in his "thirties" (93), Dr. Alford shares offices with Dr. Peabody but expresses impatience and often contempt for Peabody's traditional ideas about the practice of medicine. He is courting Narcissa Benbow, but without arousing much interest in her.

Bayard Sartoris (infant)

This is the only child of young Bayard's short-lived marriage to Caroline White. According to Jenny Du Pre, Caroline named him Bayard "nine months before it was born" (51). He and his mother both died while Bayard was in France, though the novel does not explain the cause.

Aunt Sally Wyatt

Though the Benbows and the narrator call her "Aunt Sally," there is no sign of any nieces or nephews. She is the neighbor and old family friend who stays with Narcissa while Horace is in France. The narrator calls her "a good old soul, but she lived much in the past, shutting her intelligence with a bland finality to anything which had occurred since 1901" (168).

Harry Mitchell

"A cotton speculator and a good one; he was ugly as sin and kind-hearted and dogmatic and talkative" (188). Conventional to a fault, Harry does not know his wife Belle is having an affair with Horace, whom he likes. After Belle divorces him, Young Bayard sees him in a Chicago nightclub with a young woman who is apparently trying to rob him.

(Little) Belle Mitchell

The young daughter of Belle and Harry Mitchell, and, by the end of the novel, Horace Benbow's step-daughter. Belle likes showing her off. In Sanctuary, set ten years later, she is a young woman whose sexuality makes Horace so anxious that he feels forced to leave.

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