Unnamed Caretaker 1
Character Key Number:
2990
Display Name:
Unnamed Caretaker 1
Sort Name:
Unnamed Caretaker 1
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In "Knight's Gambit" Harriss rents the plantation he inherits from his father-in-law to this "caretaker," a man who "didn’t even live in the county" but commutes from Memphis except during planting and harvest season, when he camps out in one the abandoned Negro cabins (159-60).