Mr. Rouncewell

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2015-11-22 16:52
Text: 
The Reivers
Character Key: 
Mr. Rouncewell 2
Display Name: 
Mr. Rouncewell
Sort Name: 
Rouncewell, Mr.
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Sales and Service
Specific Job: 
Oil Company Agent
First Mentioned: 
Jefferson Railroad Station in The Reivers (Location)
Biography: 

Mr. Rouncewell is an agent for a company that "supplies all the stores in Yoknapatawpha County" with oil (48). Either he or the oil company is also far-sighted enough recently to have added "a special tank of gasoline" to the tanks holding oil (48). His name suggests a connection to "Mrs. Rouncewell's boarding house" (26), where Boon lives, and there are men named Rouncewell in both The Town and The Mansion he could be, or be related to, but the novel does not make any of those connections explicit.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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