Pat Stamper

Submitted by jbc@ku.edu on Wed, 2016-08-10 15:28
Text: 
"Fool About a Horse"
Character Key: 
Pat Stamper
Display Name: 
Pat Stamper
Sort Name: 
Stamper, Pat
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Major
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Sales and Service
Specific Job: 
Horse and Mule Trader
First Mentioned: 
Tenant Farm on Holland's Land in "Fool About a Horse" (Location)
Biography: 

Pat Stamper is the greatest horse- and mule-trader in the entire Yoknapatawpha region. He wears a "cream-colored Stetson [hat] cocked over one" of his eyes, which are described as "the color of a new plow point," that is, presumably, a cold steel grey (125). Shrewd and intimidating, he knows, with great help from his assisant, Jim, exactly how to get the better of Pap (and later Mammy) in livestock trades.

Note: 
Pat Stamper also gets the better of Ab Snopes when this sory ios re-cast in The Hamlet. As Ratliff (replaciing the boy as narrator) explains it, this incident completely "soured Ab.
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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