Mr. Rouncewell 2
Character Key Number:
3699
Display Name:
Mr. Rouncewell 2
Sort Name:
Rouncewell 2, Mr.
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In The Reivers 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.