Horace Benbow
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Horace Benbow
Sort Name:
Benbow, Horace
Parent:
AKA:
Horry
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Benbow
Family (new):
Occupation:
Professional
Specific Job:
Lawyer
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Saturday, January 1, 1887 to Sunday, December 31, 1893
Origin:
Yoknapatawpha
Other Texts:
Biography:
The last male descendant of the aristocratic Benbow family, Horace served as a noncombatant with the YMCA during World War I. Like his father he is a lawyer. His passion for glass blowing identifies him as an artist-figure, albeit a hapless one. Like Quentin Compson, he is characterized by his idealism and his ineffectuality, and he is often depicted at the mercy of women: his sister Narcissa, his mistress and eventual wife Belle, and even Belle's sister, Joan, with whom he has a very brief affair. By the end of the novel he and Belle have moved to a new town some distance from Jefferson, where Horace feels very much in exile; he returns to Jefferson as the central character in Sanctuary (1931).
Individual or Group:
Individual
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