Devries
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Devries
Sort Name:
Devries
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Alive
First Mentioned:
Origin:
Mississippi
Other Texts:
Biography:
The man who challenges Clarence Snopes in the Congressional race is from an (invented) county east of Yoknapatawpha. Like the narrator, he had been a soldier "in that decade between 1942 and 1952" (133). He comes back from Korea with a chest full of medals, including "the top one" (134) - i.e. the Congressional Medal of Honor - and a "mechanical leg" (136). As a officer in both World War II and the Korean War, he served with great heroism in command of "Negro troops" (134); the narrative treats his war record as extremely admirable, but Snopes has no trouble convincing the racists in the electorate that Devries is "a lover of Negroes and hence subversive to our entire way of life" (136).
Disability:
amputee
wounded
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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