Ab Snopes

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Ab Snopes
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Snopes, Ab
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Poor White
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
Snopes
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Occupation: 
Farming
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Ab Snopes, Flem's father in a number of Yoknapatawpha fictions, is an elusive figure in The Town. In Chapter 1 Charles reports him as having been hanged during the Civil War as a horse thief - right before Ratliff tells Gavin Stevens that "about ten years ago Flem and an old man who seemed to be his father appeared suddenly from nowhere one day and rented a little farm from Mr Will Varner" (5). (Ab may appear again in Chapter 8, as the irascible old man who lived just outside of Jefferson with a watermelon patch that he fiercely guarded: some folks say he "Mr Flem's father" but others identify him as "just his uncle" (136). However, we have decided to identify this angry old man as a brother of Ab.)

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In The Town, Faulkner plays with the idea that this oldest Snopes has only legendary connections to the Ab Snopes of The Unvanquished novel and stories. JBC
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