McCaslin, Father of Ike
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McCaslin, Father of Ike
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McCaslin, Father of Ike
AKA:
Theophilus McCaslin
Uncle Buck
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dead
Family:
McCaslin
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Occupation:
Armed Forces
Specific Job:
Confederate Cavalryman
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Biography:
The one detail that this story provides about McCaslin's unnamed father differ substantially from his biography elsewhere in Faulkner's fiction. Here this "father" is remembered as having fought in the Civil War as a cavalryman under Major de Spain (273) - or as his son puts it, "my pappy" was one of the men who "tried once to tear [the U.S.] in two with a war" (269). Both the earlier novel The Unvanquished and the later novel Go Down, Moses, however, make it clear that it's McCaslin's father's twin brother who fought in the Civil War, while he himself stayed in Yoknapatawpha.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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