Mr. McDiarmid
Character Key Number:
3687
Display Name:
Mr. McDiarmid
Sort Name:
McDiarmid, Mr.
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
Mr. McDiarmid is one of the two judges at the horse race in The Reivers. Lucius describes him, memorably, as the operator of "the depot eating room, who . . . could slice a ham so thin that his entire family made a summer trip to Chicago on the profits from one of them" (229).