Hubert Beauchamp

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2020-02-20 08:49
Character Key Number: 
2735
Display Name: 
Hubert Beauchamp
Sort Name: 
Beauchamp, Hubert
Parent Character Key: 
Beauchamp, Father of Hubert and Sophonsiba
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

The full name of Ike McCaslin's "Uncle Hubert" in Go Down, Moses, as readers learn when he signs the i.o.u.'s he leaves his nephew instead of a golden treasure, is Hubert Fitz-Hubert Beauchamp. The son of the man who built it, he owns the "Warwick" plantation that is half-a-day’s ride from the McCaslin plantation. After the Civil War he takes a black mistress for a while, and then lives with an aged black servant "in one single room" in the decaying mansion (290) until it burns down. His vainglorious attempt to leave a legacy for his nephew, Ike McCaslin, is a comic failure, but the story of that dwindling inheritance speaks to the changing fortunes of another plantation family after the Civil War.

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