Character Keys
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3579 | Unnamed Parchman Doctor |
In The Mansion Mink turns to "the prison doctor" for an explanation of how deafness works (454). |
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3578 | Unnamed Preachers |
The ministers in Jefferson, all of whom are Protestants, resent Eula for her open infidelity. Later in The Mansion, however, the town's "white ministers" cannot find a reason to "go on record against" Linda Snopes Kohl's work as a Sunday school teacher at "one of the Negro churches" (254). |
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3577 | Unnamed Prisoners of War |
These are the other captured U.S. and Allied servicemen in The Mansion with whom Charles Mallison is confined in a German "POW camp at Limbourg" during the Second World War (323). |
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3576 | Unnamed Voters at Picnic |
Will Varner's picnic is attended by "every voter and candidate in forty miles that owned a pickup or could bum a ride in one or even a span of mules" (348). The Mansion takes for granted the fact that "every voter" is white. |
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3575 | Unnamed People in Reba's Neighborhood |
The Mansion mentions "all the neighborhood" around Miss Reba's in Memphis, but the people it lists in that category are not really neighbors, since they are all there on business: "the cop, the boy that brought the milk and collected for the paper, and the people on the laundry truck" (80). |
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3574 | Unnamed Pawnbrokers |
These two men run the pawn shop that sells Mink a gun in The Mansion. They are described as being "blue-jowled as pirates" (320). |
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3573 | Unnamed Pascagoula Lawyer |
In The Mansion Gavin Stevens knows the lawyer in Pascagoula who sets Linda up with an apartment. |
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3572 | Unnamed Parchman Trustees |
These Parchman prisoners are not described in any detail in The Mansion, but "trustee" is the generic term for prison inmates who can be trusted to help the authorities administer the institution. They are typically given (minor) privileges and allowed (limited) freedoms that other inmates aren't. |
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3571 | Unnamed Parchman Trustee |
This is the trustee - or as Ratliff pronounces it, "trusty" - who leads Mink out of the state penitentiary in The Mansion; he is in Parchman as a "lifer" who "killed his wife with a ball peen hammer" but according to the Warden "was converted and received salvation in jail" (423). |
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3570 | Unnamed Parchman Inmates 2 |
"They were picking the cotton now" (100) - after Mink has been released from the penitentiary, this is how in The Mansion he thinks about the inmates who remain in Parchman's, most of whom work as field hands on the farm around the prison. |
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3569 | Unnamed Painters |
As a symptom of the post-war building- and baby-boom, these house painters can barely finish up their job before eager veterans move into Eula Acres in The Mansion. |
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3568 | Unnamed Original Settlers of Yoknapatawpha |
The Mansion refers to "Yoknapatawpha County's three original settlers" (421) but only gives one of them a name: Alexander Holston (he has his own Character entry). In other Yoknapatawpha fictions this group always includes Samuel Habersham, sometimes along with his (unnamed) son; in "Hand Upon the Waters," the group includes an ancestor of Gavin Stevens as one of the three. |
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3567 | Unnamed Movie-Goers 5 |
In his wanderings around Jefferson at the start of The Mansion Mink notices "the couples, young men and girls and old people and children," "all moving in one direction" (36). Their destination is the town's earliest version of the movies - the "Airdome" (36). |
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3566 | Unnamed Old People |
While some "old people" are included in the group in The Mansion that goes to the movie in Jefferson ("couples, young men and girls and old people," 36), this entry represents the "old people" that the narrative specifically identifies, who "didn't go to the picture show" but instead sit in their rocking chairs (38). |
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3565 | Unnamed Oil Company Agent |
In The Mansion this unnamed "purchasing agent" of the unnamed oil company comes to Jefferson looking for a place to put a gas station (369); he offers to buy land from Res Snopes and Meadowfill. |
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3564 | Unnamed Boys |
In The Mansion Charles describes how "the five-year-old Jeffersonians like I was then" (199) and the "eight- and nine- and ten-year old males" (200) regarded the men returning from in World War I with their "wound- and service-stripes" and "medal ribbons" (200). |
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3563 | Unnamed Newspaper Reporters |
These "young fellers from the paper" who report the story of Mink Snopes' attempted prison break in The Mansion repeatedly ask him what his real name is, since "Mink" is "jest a nickname" (98). |
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3562 | Unnamed Newspaper Boy |
In The Mansion this boy "delivers the Memphis and Jackson papers" in Jefferson (371). The town speculates that Meadowfill pays him to "bait his orchard at night," in order to attract Res Snopes' hog (371). |
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3561 | Unnamed New York Couple |
In The Mansion this unnamed "newspaper man" and his partner - "a young couple about the same age as them" (191) - are going to occupy Barton and Linda's apartment once they leave for Spain. |
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3560 | Unnamed Family of Meadowfill's Neighbor |
These are the family members in The Mansion who sell Meadowfill the wheelchair that belonged to the dead woman who was their relative and his neighbor. |
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3559 | Unnamed Neighbors of Houston |
Houston's neighbors in The Mansion "didn't dare knock on his door anymore" after his wife died (8). |
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3558 | Unnamed Neighbors of Goodyhay |
The character named Dad in The Mansion speculates that "the rest of the folks in the neighborhood" of Goodyhay's unconventional church won't "put up with no such as this" (300). He assumes they will object to Goodyhay's congregation of ex-soldiers and their families as "a passel of free-loading government-subsidised ex-drafted sons of bitches" who want to do "something" politically radical about the American status quo (300). |
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3557 | Unnamed Husband of Flem's Neighbor |
The husband of the woman in The Mansion who effaces the racist epithet on Mink and Linda's sidewalk appears parenthetically, in an odd aside that is apparently meant to represent the woman's thoughts rather than the narrative's comment on the subordination of women: the words have no place "on the sidewalk of the street she (and her husband of course) lived and owned property on" (251). |
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3556 | Unnamed Neighbor of Meadowfill |
In The Mansion Meadowfill buys the wheelchair of a "paralytic old lady" who recently died (362). |
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3555 | Unnamed Neighbor of Flem |
After someone writes "Nigger Lover" on the sidewalk in front of Flem Snopes' house in The Mansion (250), this neighbor "viciously, angrily" uses a broom to "obscure" the words (251) - not, the narrative notes, because she shares "Linda's impossible dream" of improving black lives in Jefferson, but "because she lived on this street" (251). |
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3554 | Unnamed Negro Yard Man|Chauffeur |
This is the black man who works for Flem Snopes in The Mansion. In his narrative Ratliff calls him both the "yard boy" (172) and "the yard man" (173), "that Negro yard man" (182); given Ratliff's dialect and the white Southern use of "boy" to keep black men in the place that segregation defines for them, it's safe to say this "boy" is in fact a "man." In addition to his work around and outside Flem's mansion, he drives Flem's car "now and then" (172), though Ratliff notes that "he never had no white coat and showfer's [i.e. chauffeur's] cap" (174). |
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3553 | Unnamed Son of Negro Congregant |
Albert tells Mink that this son of the black woman who worships with the white members of Goodyhay's congregation "had it too just like the rest" (305). The Mansion explains what "it" is when Albert adds "even if they didn't put his name on the same side of the monument" with the whites: "it" seems to be that her son was killed fighting during World War II (305). |
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3552 | Unnamed Negro Witness 3 |
In The Mansion this unnamed Negro reports to Ratliff about seeing Mink Snopes making his way back to town. |
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3551 | Unnamed Negro Trainman |
In The Mansion Mink watches this Negro, who strikes him as "uppity," got off the train and put down a footstool so passengers can disembark (38). |
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3550 | Unnamed Negro Teachers |
After returning from Spain in The Mansion, Linda Snopes Kohl begins going into "the Negro grammar and high school" to try to improve conditions for "the pupils" (246). The black teachers in the school (along with their students) are described as "startled" and "perhaps alarmed" by her presence (246). Linda's plan would "send" these same black teachers "North to white schools where they will be accepted and trained as white teachers are" - meanwhile replacing them in the school in Jefferson with white teachers (250). |
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3549 | Unnamed Negro Teacher |
In The Mansion this "senior woman teacher" in Jefferson's Negro school seconds the principal as he tries to explain to Linda Snopes Kohl why her plan to improve education for blacks is misguided (247). |
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3548 | Unnamed Negro Sunday School Students |
After Linda surrenders her attempt to improve Jefferson's black schools in The Mansion, she meets with "a class of small children each Sunday at one of the Negro churches" (254). |
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3547 | Unnamed Negro Student |
The first time that Linda goes into "the Negro grammar and high school" in The Mansion (246), this "alarmed messenger" is sent to tell the principal (247). |
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3546 | Unnamed Negro Store Manager|Owner |
While he's in Memphis in The Mansion, Mink goes into a "dingy store" where he sees a "Negro man" who seems to be "running it" and "maybe he even owned it": after all his time in prison Mink wonders if "the new laws" mean a black man "could even own a store" (319). |
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3545 | Unnamed Negro Stevedores |
The river in Memphis that Mink remembers in The Mansion was lined with "chanting stevedores" loading the riverboats (315). |
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3544 | Unnamed Negro Army Soldier 3 |
In The Mansion this man was "bred up on an Arkansas plantation" before becoming a American soldier during World War II (306). He is "new" to the Army when his commander leaves him in a foxhole near the Japanese enemy somewhere in Malaya; before he can be relieved or reinforced, he is killed and beheaded (306). |
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3543 | Unnamed Negro Schoolchildren |
After returning from Spain in The Mansion, Linda Snopes Kohl begins going into "the Negro grammar and high school" to try to improve conditions for "the pupils" (246). Like their teachers, these children are described as "startled" and "perhaps alarmed" by her presence (246). |
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3542 | Unnamed Negro Railroad Porters and Waiters |
As part of his memory of the train he watched "thirty-eight or forty-years ago" in The Mansion, Mink Snopes recalls that inside each car he could see the "uppity impudent" porters, and the black men who "waited" on the white people eating in the dining car (445). |
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3541 | Unnamed Negro Railroad Fireman |
Mink sees the fireman "crouched dim and high above the hissing steam" beside the engineer as a night train pulls into the Jefferson station in The Mansion (39). In this context, the 'fireman' is a man who keeps train's boiler hot by shoveling coal into its firebox. The text itself provides no further information him, but given the historical patterns of the segregated South and the 'firemen' who appear elsewhere in Faulkner's fictions, it seems safe to assume the man Mink sees is a Negro. |
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3540 | Unnamed Negro Principal |
The principal of Jefferson's Negro school in The Mansion is a "college-bred man" and, according to Gavin Stevens, a person "of intelligence and devotion too" (247). Along with the school's "senior woman teacher," he tries to explain to Linda Snopes Kohl why her plan to improve education for blacks is misguided (247). |
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3539 | Unnamed Negro Cotton Pickers 2 |
This group consists of the "girls" and "young men" - "probably the neighbors swapping the work" - who are helping to pick the unnamed Negro farmer's cotton in The Mansion (438). |
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3537 | Unnamed Children of Negro Cotton Farmer |
The cotton farmer with whom Mink briefly stays in The Mansion has five children between the ages of "five or six and twelve" (438). All five work with their parents picking cotton. Only one is individuated by the narrative: the "oldest girl" (440), who is the "twelve-year-old" and who helps her mother prepare supper (441). |
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3536 | Unnamed Negro Wife of Cotton Farmer |
The wife of the cotton farmer in The Mansion works with him and the whole family picking cotton, and then, with her daughter, she prepares supper according to the etiquette of Jim Crow - that is, first she serves the meal for Mink Snopes to eat alone, and then "the meal for the family" (440). |
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3535 | Unnamed Negro Cotton Farmer |
In The Mansion this cotton farmer allows Mink to work and stay the night at his place. As a Negro he expresses himself carefully when talking with the white Mink, but he clearly has doubts about the story Mink has told him about himself. |
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3534 | Unnamed Negro Coachman |
In The Mansion this "Negro coachman" drives the young Melisandre Backus "in a victoria" (217). (This revises the way Faulkner represented Melisandre and her father's life in "Knight's Gambit"; there, although he's a planter, Mr. Backus uses a "barefoot" field hand rather than a domestic servant to drive his daughter, and a 'victoria' carriage is much more elegant than anything Backus would own, 245.) |
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3533 | Jakeleg Wattman |
In The Mansion Wattleg is a moonshiner who sells his whisky out of a "little unpainted store" near Wylie's Crossing that he can take apart and move to avoid the law (244). |
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3532 | Unnamed Negro at Jakeleg Wattman's |
In The Mansion the Negro who works for Jakeleg Wattman fetching liquor bottles to the customers wears "the flopping hip boots Jakeleg had worn last year" (245). |
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3531 | Unnamed Memphis Mayor |
In The Mansion the "Mayor" of Memphis is an acquaintance of Gavin Stevens's Harvard friend, who promises to seek his help in the attempt to locate Mink Snopes (426). |
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3530 | Unnamed Memphis Commissioner 2 |
The "Commissioner" in Memphis is an acquaintance of Gavin Stevens's Harvard friend (426). Presumably he's the Commissioner of Police, though that isn't made explicit. Gavin's friend enlists his help in the attempt to locate Mink Snopes. |
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3529 | Unnamed Members of the Sartoris Rifles |
In The Mansion, when the U.S. enters the First World War Mack Lendon organizes a company of soldiers "to be known as the Sartoris Rifles in honor of the original Colonel Sartoris" (204). The only two members of the unit who are named are Lendon himself and Tug Nightingale. The company ships out "to Texas for training" (207). |
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3528 | Unnamed Members of the Communist Party |
In The Mansion the F.B.I. agent who interrogate Stevens about Linda Snopes Kohl's activities mentions the people in the United States who are "Communist members and agents"; included in this group are "Jewish sculptors and Columbia professors" as well as "important people" (261). |
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3527 | Unnamed Members of Jehovah's Shareholders |
"Jehovah's Shareholders" is the name religious sect in Parchman's Penitentiary (111). According to the narrator of The Mansion, it was "headed by self-ordained leaders who had reached prison through a curiously consistent pattern: by the conviction of crimes peculiar to the middle class, to respectability, originating in domesticity or anyway uxoriousness" (111). |
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3526 | Unnamed Army Sergeant 2 |
During Manfred de Spain's campaign for Mayor in The Mansion, his opponents start a rumor that he got the scar on his face from "a Missouri sergeant with a axe in a crap game" instead of from an enemy soldier while in Cuba during the Spanish-American War (142). |
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3525 | Unnamed Army Sergeant 1 |
According to the highly fictionalized if not entirely false account Strutterbuck provides about his experience in World War I in The Mansion, his hopes of getting the job driving General Pershing were thwarted by "a Sergeant Somebody, I forget his name" (84). |
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3524 | Unnamed Marine |
In The Mansion Dad mentions this "mama's boy" when he tells Mink about Goodyhay's experiences during World War II. According to him, during a landing on a Japanese-held island, this Marine got "scared or tangled up in something" while under attack and had to be rescued by Goodyhay (295). |
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3523 | Unnamed Mail Clerk |
In his speculations in The Mansion about the source of the anonymous letter accusing Linda of being a Communist, Gavin imagines and then dismisses this "mail clerk" at Parchman as a possible source of information, assuming anyone in that position would probably not be very competent at keeping track of the mail (269). |
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3522 | Unnamed Landowner |
This man owns the land on which Goodyhay wants to build his "chapel" in The Mansion; he has "changed his mind," or, Albert speculates, had it changed for him by "the bank that holds the mortgage" or maybe "the American Legion" (303). |
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3521 | Unnamed Landlords |
The "landlord" Mink thinks about in The Mansion while serving his prison sentence in Parchman is a composite figure, made up of the various property owners who over the years have hired and fired him and his family as tenant farmers (102). |
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3520 | Unnamed Kin of Mink Snopes' Wife |
In The Mansion Mink's wife Yetti goes back to her "people" after he is sent to jail (104). (Faulkner seems to have forgotten the biography he created in The Hamlet for the woman whom Mink marries and brings to Yoknapatawpha; if you take that earlier account into account, it's extremely difficult to imagine who her "people" might be.) |
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3519 | Unnamed Grand Jury Foreman 2 |
The foreman of the "Grand Jury" that found Mink guilty in The Mansion is in later life "a hale (hence still quick) eighty-five"; he runs "a small electric-driven corn-mill" but also spends a lot of time "hunting and fishing with Uncle Ike McCaslin" (407). (Faulkner may have meant "jury," because Grand Juries of course prepare indictments, but don't deliver verdicts.) |
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3518 | Unnamed Foreign Correspondents |
In The Mansion three foreign correspondents for the newspapers are among Linda and Barton's wedding guests; they are the last to leave the party. |
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3517 | Unnamed Jefferson Cops |
These are "the cops" in The Mansion who put out the burning cross in front of 'The Mansion,' i.e. the house where Linda Snopes Kohl lives with her father (252). The narrative says they were "outraged and seething of course, but helpless" - what they are outraged at, however, seems to be the fact that the house belongs to "THE banker" (252). (Faulkner usually identifies the police in Yoknapatawpha as sheriffs, deputies and marshals, but the term 'police' becomes more common in his later fictions; this use of the term 'cops' is even rarer.) |
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3516 | Unnamed Negroes in Jefferson |
Jefferson's African-American population appears in The Mansion indirectly, in several narrative references to them as a group and from several different political perspectives. On his trip into Jefferson at the beginning of the novel, for example, Mink walks through a "section [of] all Negro homes" (38) between the Square and the railroad depot; his thoughts seem to include the actual 'Negroes' who live in these homes, though no people come clearly into focus. |
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3515 | Unnamed Japanese Troops |
In The Mansion these Japanese troops attack the retreating group of Americans as well as "Aussies, British, French from Indo-China" somewhere in "Malaya" at the start of the Second World War (305). They are never seen, but readers hear them "chirping" in the dark just beyond a line of American foxholes. Their "English" is the stereotypical dialect that once was spoken by Asians in (white) American popular culture: "Maline" (i.e. Marine), "Tonigh youdigh" (306). |
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3514 | Unnamed Young Girl |
Ratliff hypothesizes in The Mansion 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). |
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3513 | Unnamed Wife of Gavin Stevens |
According to Charles in The Mansion, Ratliff expects that "some woman" will come along one day and marry Gavin Stevens, after deciding that he is "dependable enough at last for steady work in place of merely an occasional chore" (215). |
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3512 | Unnamed White Soldier |
Clarence Snopes invents this soldier as part of his smear campaign against Devries in The Mansion, spreading the rumor that during the war Devries chose to save the Negro soldier and left this white one to die (345). |
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3511 | Unnamed Doctor in Veterans Hospital |
In The Mansion, as part of his cover story about spending a year in the "Govment Vetruns Hospital" in Memphis, Mink claims that a doctor there told him walking was good for him, and that's why he is "on the road instead of the train" (439). |
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3510 | Unnamed Telegram Delivery Boy 4 |
Ratliff speculates in The Mansion that Stevens sits around and waits for this imagined telegraph boy to bring him news of Linda Snopes. |
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3509 | Unnamed Spies 2 |
According to Gavin's musings in The Mansion, Jason's behavior might make one "almost believe" that he had spies in both "the Japanese Diet" and "the U.S. Cabinet too," as he seems to have advance knowledge of the coming war and the air training field that would be built in Jefferson (356). ("Diet" in this context is the name of the legislative branch of the Japanese government.) |
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3508 | Unnamed Spies 1 |
In The Mansion Ratliff speculates that Flem has "spies" that watch Montgomery Ward's business. He imagines them as children, moreover, "since any little child hired with a ice cream cone" would suit Flem's needs (62). |
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3507 | Unnamed Sheriff 14 |
After his experience with crime and punishment, the first time Mink buys a "soft drink" in The Mansion he imagines a sheriff will "come for him" if he takes the change from his purchase (287). |
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3506 | Unnamed Negro at Blackwater Slough |
Trying to buy ammunition to kill Houston in The Mansion, Mink claims that this unnamed black man saw a bear's footprint at Blackwater Slough. |
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3505 | Unnamed Murderer |
In The Mansion Mink imagines that someone else will kill Flem before he can. |
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3504 | Unnamed Husband of Linda |
In The Mansion The question of Linda Snopes' romantic future is answered several times, at least hypothetically, by the 'husbands' that Ratliff and Gavin imagine she'll marry some day. In the first such musing, Ratliff describes how Stevens imagines that Linda will leave Jefferson and marry "the first strange young man that happens by" (153). On another occasion, Ratliff and Stevens together speculate about whether Linda has already met her future husband during her first two or three days in the "Grinnich Village" (169). |
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3503 | Unnamed Daughter of Mink |
Mink has two actual daughters; this "daughter" who lives in "the Delta" is one he invents in The Mansion to keep the Negro cotton farmer from identifying him (439). |
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3502 | Unnamed Daughter of Linda Snopes Kohl |
In The Mansion Ratliff wonders, facetiously, whether Linda has a daughter "stashed out somewhere" - because he knows that given Gavin's obsession with Eula Varner Snopes and her daughter Linda, another female Snopes would be too much for him to deal with (476). |
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3501 | Unnamed Negro Employees of the Holston House 2 |
In keeping with entrenched traditions, the Holston House in The Mansion still has "Negro man waiters," some of whom are the sons of previous generations of waiters (421), and in the ladies dressing room there is "a maid" (422). |
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3500 | Unnamed Negro Laborer |
In The Mansion Res Snopes employs "a hired Negro" to help him build a fence (363). |
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3499 | Unnamed Harvard Classmate |
In The Mansion this Harvard classmate of Gavin Stevens helps him get a petition to the Governor for Mink's release, and also helps Stevens track Mink down later. (A former Harvard classmate of Gavin, also unnamed, appears in Light in August, but there's no way to know if Faulkner is thinking of the same man here.) |
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3498 | Unnamed Guests at Holston House |
Male "guests" staying at the Holston House are required to wear "a coat and necktie" in the dining room, while women guests must have their "heads covered" (421). The only guests whom The Mansion identifies are "drummers" - i.e. traveling salesmen - and they are all males (37). |
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3497 | Unnamed Guests at Backus Plantation |
In a passage in The Mansion that provides a rare glimpse into Stevens' life after he marries the wealthy Melisandre Backus Harriss, the narrator describes his discomfort whenever "guests, even the same guest or guests again," came to dinner (399). |
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3496 | Unnamed People Who Admire Linda's New Car |
The group of people in The Mansion who admire the new Jaguar in which Linda Snopes Kohl will ride away from Yoknapatawpha consists of "men, boys, a Negro or so" (464); throughout the novel the people of Jefferson are often described as spectators, but the fact that this group explicitly includes blacks as well as whites makes it worth creating as a 'character' in itself. |
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3495 | Unnamed Grandson of Will Varner |
The only thing said about Varner's grandson in The Mansion is that he had a love interest whom the eighty-year old Varner ended up marrying himself. |
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3494 | Unnamed Governors of Mississippi |
In The Mansion Mink's lawyer speculates that after Mink gets to the penitentiary, a meddler with "access to the Governor's ear" may be able to secure his early release (50). Almost four decades later, a different Governor approves Mink's petition for freedom (408). (The actual Governors of Mississippi in 1908 and 1946 were, respectively, James Kimble Vardaman and Thomas Lowry Bailey. |
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3493 | Unnamed German Aviators 2 |
The Mansion goes back to the story of the Sartoris twins in World War I and adds a detail to John Sartoris' resume: fighting with the "Royal Flying Corps" in World War I (204), John shot down "three huns" (212) in combat. |
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3492 | Unnamed Husband of Former Prostitute |
In The Mansion the story of the dead man who was married to the former prostitute in Goodyhay's congregation is told in matter-of-fact terms in a couple pages by Albert, a member of Goodyhay's congregation. Albert says nothing about how he married his wife, but describes how he decided to kill himself during the fighting at the start of the Second World War. He is a Lieutenant in command of an infantry platoon falling back as part of the confused retreat in "Malaya" (a British colony on the Malay Peninsula, 305). |
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3491 | Unnamed Former Prostitute |
This woman in The Mansion used to work in a "Catalpa Street house" (305), an address that means she was a prostitute in one of the many brothels in Memphis. According to Albert, "she looks a little like a whore yet," but after her husband died in World War II, she became a member of Goodyhay's eccentric congregation (305). |
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3490 | Unnamed Finnish Immigrants |
These two Finns in The Mansion are among the more exotic inhabitants of Jefferson. They escaped "from Russia in 1917" and then "from Europe in 1919" - the 1917 Russian Revolution produced a lot of refugees, but there is no obvious reason why they had to "escape" from Europe when they did (236). "In the early twenties" they arrive in Jefferson, where one becomes a cobbler, taking over Nightingale's shop, and the other a tinsmith. |
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3489 | Unnamed Wife of Parchman Trustee |
In The Mansion the trustee in Parchman is a "lifer" - someone sentenced to life imprisonment - for killing "his wife with a ball peen hammer" (423). Her father has sworn to kill the man, but we don't know anything more about her. |
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3488 | Unnamed Father-in-Law of Trustee |
"The gal's paw" (424) - that is how Ratliff refers in The Mansion to the father of the wife whom the penitentiary trustee had killed. This man has "swore he would kill [the trustee] the first time he crossed the Parchman fence" (424). |
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3487 | Unnamed Employees at Allanova's |
In The Mansion as Gavin and Ratliff walk through Allanova's store on their way to her office, they see "two ladies in black dresses and a man dressed like a congressman or at least a preacher"; that this well-dressed group are clerks becomes clear when they recognize Gavin as a former customer (186). |
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3486 | Unnamed Eleven-Year-Old Girl |
In the chapter he narrates in The Mansion, Montgomery Ward refers to this girl when, in a passage summing up the scoundrels in his family, he talks about "Uncle Wesley leading a hymn with one hand and fumbling the skirt of an eleven-year-old infant with the other" (93). In The Town Wesley is caught having sex with a fourteen-year-old, so it is certainly possible that Monty is referring to a real event and victim, but it seems more probable that, as in his use of the word "infant," Monty is inventing or exaggerating here. |
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3485 | Unnamed Deputized "Boys" |
In The Mansion the Sheriff deputizes "two boys at Varner's store" to keep a look out for Mink Snopes (434). "Boys" of course is a colloquial southern term for lower class men - as in 'good ole boys' - and these "boys" must be full-grown men, since they claim to "remember" Mink from before he went to prison. (In the same vocabulary, "boy" is also a derogatory term for adult black men, but it's not likely that blacks would be "at Varner's store" - and even less likely that they would be given an unofficial job in law enforcement.) |
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3484 | Unnamed Crop-Duster 2 |
In The Mansion this pilot offers to let Chick Mallison train flying one of the planes he uses to dust crops. |
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3483 | Unnamed Married Couple |
This married couple gives Goodyhay and Mink a ride to the chapel in The Mansion; the car they drive is "hard-used and a little battered" (304). |
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3482 | Unnamed President of County Board of Supervisors |
In The Mansion the exasperated president of Yoknapatawpha's Board of Supervisors meets with Flem to ask for his help in ending Linda's campaign to improve the education of local Negro children. |
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3481 | Unnamed Board of County Supervisors 2 |
When in The Mansion Linda Snopes Kohl takes her campaign to improve black schools to "the County Board of Supervisors," they try at first to talk her out of the idea (250); when she persists, they "didn't dare unlock their door while they were in session" and resort to having their lunch snuck in "through the back window" of the meeting room (251). |
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3480 | Unnamed Congregants at Goodyhay's Church |
The congregants in Goodyhay's church in The Mansion are mostly ex-soldiers and their wives or mistresses; one of the men wears a "barracks cap still showing where the officer's badge had been removed" (305), and another refers to the group as "ex-drafted sons of bitches" (300). But the group also includes "the moms and pops of soldiers that got killed" (295) as well as the men who help to build at the two church sites. |
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3479 | Unnamed Companions of Mink |
In The Mansion Mink has "companions of his age and sex" who go with him to Memphis brothels (36). |