Isaac McCaslin
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Isaac McCaslin
Sort Name:
McCaslin, Isaac
Parent:
AKA:
Cousin Ike
Ike McCaslin
Uncle Ike
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
McCaslin
Family (new):
Occupation:
Sales and Service
Specific Job:
Hardware Store Owner
Other Texts:
Biography:
Isaac McCaslin is a frequent figure in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, and a major character in Go Down, Moses. The "Cousin Isaac McCaslin" who appears in The Reivers is the same character: the narrative mentions how he "abdicated the McCaslin plantation" (17) and describes him as "the best woodsman and hunter this county ever had" (14). But in this last of his appearances in the fictions, he is again represented in the less mythic role of the merchant who owns the hardware store on Courthouse Square. He lives in "a single room" over his store (55).
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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