Doc Meeks

Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2017-10-26 10:21
Text: 
The Mansion
Character Key: 
Doc Meeks
Display Name: 
Doc Meeks
Sort Name: 
Meeks, Doc
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Sales and Service
Specific Job: 
Patent Medicines
First Mentioned: 
De Spain Mansion in The Mansion (Location)
Biography: 

Doc Meeks himself does not appear in the novel, but the "patent medicine truck" he drives around Yoknapatawpha advertises "Watkins Products" - a real manufacturer of health medicines that has been in business since just after the Civil War - on "both [its] sides and the back" (171). The novel describes those advertisements as the source of Watkins Products Snopes' name.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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