Smith and Jones
Character Key Number:
2715
Display Name:
Smith and Jones
Sort Name:
Smith and Jones
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
"Smith and Jones" are generic American surnames. In "Delta Autumn," Don Boyd uses them to suggest how widespread are the contemporary political threats to the U.S. (269). In the revised version of the story that appears in Go Down, Moses, the character who mentions them is Roth Edmonds (322).