Unnamed Farmers(1)

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2016-06-23 15:25
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Character Key: 
Unnamed Farmers 3
Display Name: 
Unnamed Farmers(1)
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Farmers(1)
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
MultiClass Group
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Farming
Specific Job: 
Farmers|Loggers
First Mentioned: 
Big Bottom in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Biography: 

When the narrative refers to "the little puny humans [who] swarmed and hacked" at the wilderness "in a fury of abhorrence and fear" (183), it is describing the people who clear the woods for farms and cut them down for timber, the two main staples of the local economy. Some of these "men with plows and axes" appear directly in the story, as the men from the neighboring farms and from a nearby logging camp who join the final hunt for Old Ben; each of these two groups has their own entry as characters. This entry represents that very broad group the narrator has in mind, which is multi-generational and includes in one way or another many of the white men who 'settled' Yoknapatawpha.

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

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