Orestes Snopes
Character Key Number:
278
Display Name:
Orestes Snopes
Sort Name:
Snopes, Orestes
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Orestes is one of the last Snopeses added to the family tree. He appears late in The Mansion as "a new Snopes living in Jefferson" (354). Also called Res, his exact relationship to Flem is never made clear. Flem establishes him in the converted carriage house on the Compson place, which Flem now owns, where the hog farm Res operates becomes a source of increasingly violent friction with his neighbor.