Black Jack Pershing
Character Key Number:
3447
Display Name:
Black Jack Pershing
Sort Name:
Pershing, General John
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The man whom Strutterbuck refers to in The Mansion as "Black Jack" is John Joseph Pershing, who led the American Expeditionary Force that went to Europe during the last year of World War I - or as Strutterbuck puts it, who went "to France to run the show over there" (84). Strutterbuck claims to know Pershing, but there is not the slightest chance he is telling the truth, about that or anything else.