General Spoomer

Submitted by sfr on Tue, 2020-01-28 08:01
Character Key Number: 
2004
Display Name: 
General Spoomer
Sort Name: 
Spoomer, General
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

Spoomer's uncle in "All the Dead Pilots" is the "corps commander, the K.G." (513). "K.G." stands for Knight of the Order of the Garter, the most prestigious of Britain's chivalric honors. He is thus clearly a member of the upper class, and according to the narrator, a snob who predicts that the war "will be the making of the army" (513). The narrator seems to attribute his nephew's rank to his influence.

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