Shack

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2020-01-23 10:39
Character Key Number: 
1781
Display Name: 
Shack
Sort Name: 
Shack
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

On board the third and last train Horace takes on his way to Oxford in Sanctuary are two "young men in collegiate clothes with small cryptic badges on their shirts and vests" (168). One is unnamed, but he calls the other one "Shack," presumably a nickname derived from the confectionery near the college campus (169). "Shack" whistles a "broken dance rhythm" that the narrator calls "meaningless, vertiginous" (169-70).

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