Unnamed Confederate Orderly(1)

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2017-11-25 13:50
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Character Key: 
Unnamed Confederate Orderly 1
Display Name: 
Unnamed Confederate Orderly(1)
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Confederate Orderly(1)
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Specific Job: 
Orderly
First Mentioned: 
Sutpen's Store in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Biography: 

The narrative mentions the (presumably authoritarian) tone of voice in which Sutpen "used to address his orderly or even his house servants" (149). In this context an "orderly" is a soldier who serves a commanding officer as a kind of servant. Sutpen's "house servants," like nearly all the servants in Faulkner's world, are black, and during the Civil War many Confederate officers took slaves with them to the war, but these are called "body servants" in the fictions, and explicitly racialized as black. So we assume that although Sutpen's orderly's race is not made expllicit, he is white.

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

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