I.O. Snopes
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Character Key:
Display Name:
I.O. Snopes
Sort Name:
Snopes, I.O.
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Snopes
Family (new):
Occupation:
Sales and Service
Specific Job:
Mule Dealer
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
The I.O. Snopes who appears in this story is one of Flem Snopes' many cousins, and his mean-spirited efforts to enrich himself at the expense of insurance companies, mules and the husband of Mannie Hait demonstrate why in so many texts 'Snopesism' is Faulkner's quintessential symptom of the decline of Southern civilization. Elsewhere in the canon he appears as a restaurant manager, a blacksmith and a schoolteacher; this is the only text in which he is described as a mule-trader. Here he is out-witted by Mrs. Hait.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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