Mitch

Character Key Number: 
1494
Display Name: 
Mitch
Sort Name: 
Mitch
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

One of the two "young" white men (the other is Hub) in Flags in the Dust who spend an evening with Young Bayard, along with Reno and two other young black men, drinking, driving and serenading ladies out of and in Jefferson. Mitch sings "Goodnight, Ladies" in a "true, oversweet tenor" voice (143). He is a "freight agent" (140), and may be the same character as Mitch Ewing in "Hair."

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