Alabama Red
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Alabama Red
Sort Name:
Alabama Red
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dead
Occupation:
Sales and Service
Specific Job:
Nightclub Bouncer
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
"Red, Alabama Red" is the sexual partner whom Popeye provides Temple with during her confinement in the Memphis bordello. He works as "a houseman - the bouncer - at the nightclub" that Popeye owns (114). According to Temple, Red is "not a criminal," "just a thug" (114), but during their unconventional sexual encounters she "falls in love" with him (113), and writes him the letters that in the hands of his younger brother, Pete, create the occasion for the crime that Nancy commits eight years later.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
Date of Death:
Friday, May 15, 1931 to Wednesday, July 15, 1931
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