Great-Great-Grandmother McCaslin

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2015-11-21 09:39
Text: 
The Reivers
Character Key: 
Mrs. Carothers McCaslin
Display Name: 
Great-Great-Grandmother McCaslin
Sort Name: 
McCaslin, Great-Great-Grandmother
AKA: 
Mrs. Carothers McCaslin
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
McCaslin
Family (new): 
McCaslinsInR
First Mentioned: 
Wyott|Wylie's Farm in The Reivers (Location)
Home: 
McCaslin-Edmonds Place in The Reivers (Location)
Biography: 

This is the only text in which the wife of Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin, the slave-owning patriarch at the head of the McCaslin, Beauchamp, Edmonds and Priest families in Faulkner's late fictions, is mentioned. It is her Bible that Ned, the only one of her husband's illegitimate and biracial descendants who is named McCaslin rather than Beauchamp, carries in his bag - a symbolic gesture that is extremely interesting and opaque. Lucius identifies her as "Great-great-grandmother McCaslin" (69), but based on the McCaslin genealogy as developed in detail in Go Down, Moses, he should have added one more "great."

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

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