Brother J.C. Goodyhay

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Brother J.C. Goodyhay
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Goodyhay, Brother J.C.
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Biography: 

A former "Marine sergeant" (295) who, after seeing a vision of Jesus during a battle in the Pacific, comes back to the U.S. to run a religious community out of his ramshackle house. His wife reportedly "ran off" with a salesman while Goodyhay was at war (294). He is described as "a lean quick-moving man in the middle thirties with coldly seething eyes and the long upper lip of a lawyer or an orator and the long chin of the old-time comic trip Puritan" (293). According to his mailbox, Goodyhay's initials are "J C" (292), and in his case - as opposed to the name Faulkner gives Joe Christmas in Light in August - the connection with Jesus may not be ironic. Faulkner makes Goodyhay a good man.

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Individual
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