Preacher Whitfield

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2013-10-04 11:02
Text: 
"Tomorrow"
Character Key: 
Reverend Whitfield
Display Name: 
Preacher Whitfield
Sort Name: 
Whitfield, Preacher
AKA: 
Reverend Whitfield
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Professional
Specific Job: 
Minister
First Mentioned: 
Varner's Store in "Tomorrow" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"Shingles for the Lord"
As I Lay Dying
The Hamlet
Biography: 

Reverend Whitfield (as the man Quick refers to as "Preacher Whitfield" is usually called) is Frenchman's Bend's Baptist minister and an important character in two other Yoknapatawpha fictions, As I Lay Dying (1930) and "Shingles for the Lord" (1943). In this story readers learn that he lives "seven miles" from Quick's sawmill, but not in which direction (105). His role in the story is to marry Fentry and the woman who calls herself "Miss Smith," and then, when she dies, to preside over her burial (105).

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

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