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Father and namesake of Charles "Chick" Mallison, he stops the fight between Gavin Stevens and Manfred de Spain.

She runs the boarding house where Flem Snopes lives for a while. She calls it "the Commercial Hotel" (143). She may be the mother of the Rouncewell boy who discovers the robbers in Willy Christian's drugstore, but that is not made clear. (The 'Mrs. Rouncewell' who appears earlier in The Town runs a flower shop, but we are assuming the two characters are the same person.)

There are two "Major de Spain"s in the fictions; both appear in this novel. This "Major de Spain" is the man who actually was a Confederate cavalry officer during the Civil War.

Although he is only mentioned in this novel in connection with the scheme by which Flem acquires a means of access to Jefferson, Henry Armstid appears or is mentioned in seven other fictions, often as one of Faulkner's most tragically poor characters, haplessly trying to get himself and his family out of poverty.

Herman Bookwright appears in The Hamlet is one of Eula's fervent suitors, and one of the two young men from Frenchman's Bend who leave the area "suddenly overnight" once it is discovered that she is pregnant - though Ratliff believes that both these young men were "just wishing they had" (140).

She is only described as a "well-to-do" widow (139).

Theron Quick, who appears in The Hamlet as one of the suitors for Eula Varner's hand, could be Lon Quick's son, who appears elsewhere in the novel and has a separate entry in our database. He is among the suitors who ambush McCarron, but ends up being beaten unconscious by Eula, who defends McCarron with her father's buggy whip. He is also one of the two Frenchman's Bend suitors who leave the area "suddenly overnight" once it is discovered that Eula is pregnant - though Ratliff believes both of these young men were "just wishing they had" (140).

Ratliff hypothesizes that one of the young men in Frenchman's Bend might "persuade" a young girl on a Wednesday night to go "off into the bushes before her paw or maw noticed she was missing" (134).

Hoake McCarron and Eula Varner are ambushed by a group of "local stallions" (133) - five rowdy young men from Frenchman's Bend who have been courting Eula and are trying to drive away this rival. The Mansion names them as: "Bookwrights and Binfords and Quicks and Tulls" (133) - which adds up to more than five, of course.

Over the course of several pages in one of the chapters he narrates, Ratliff imagines how the unconventionally triangular relationship among Charles Mallison as an adolescent, Gavin Stevens and Linda Snopes might look to "a stranger that never happened to be living in Jefferson or Yoknapatawpha County ten or twelve years ago" (123).