Beasley Kemp
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Beasley Kemp
Sort Name:
Kemp, Beasley
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Farming
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
Beasley Kemp is a neighboring farmer whose horse Pap acquires in a swap; he himself does not appear in the story, but in some respects the eight dollars in "actual cash money" he originally paid for the horse precipitate its events (123).
Note:
Beasley is the man who bought a horse from Herman Short for eight dollars five years ago, and then traded it to Pap for "a straight stock and fourteen rods of bob-wire and a old wore-out sorghum mill of Old Man Anse Holland's" (119). He, and not the savvy horse-trader Pat Stamper, is the man who "starts actual cash money jumping from hand to hand," a violation of what Pap and the Story-teller see as a breach in Yoknapatawpha County trading etiquette.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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