Mr. Nightingale
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Mr. Nightingale
Sort Name:
Nightingale, Mr.
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dies
Occupation:
Sales and Service
Specific Job:
Cobbler
First Mentioned:
Cause of Death:
Old Age
Biography:
Mr. Nightingale is "a little scrawny man who wouldn't weigh a hundred pounds" even holding all the tools of his trade (201). His trade is shoe repair, "cobbling" (201). He is also a "Hardshell Baptist" who believes the earth is flat, and an ex-Confederate and unreconstructed Southerner who was "seventeen years old" at Appomattox when Lee surrendered. He gets very upset when his son joins the "Yankee" army to fight in World War I (202).
Individual or Group:
Individual
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