Unnamed Boy 5
Character Key Number:
1019
Display Name:
Unnamed Boy 5
Sort Name:
Unnamed Boy 5
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
This boy is one of Zilphia's schoolmates in "Miss Zilphia Gant." Sometime after she turns thirteen, she and this boy lie together for "a month" beneath a blanket in the woods, "in the mutual, dreamlike mesmeric throes of puberty," "rigid, side by side," and apparently without any intimate contact (374). He disappears from the story after Zilphia's mother discovers them together.