Unnamed Father-in-Law of Mink Snopes
Character Key Number:
2574
Display Name:
Unnamed Father-in-Law of Mink Snopes
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Unnamed Father-in-Law of Mink Snopes
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The father of the woman who marries Mink Snopes in The Hamlet is a "roaring man of about fifty"; he's a widower who has a "magnificent quadroon mistress" and the owner of timber land that he harvests using unpaid convict labor that he acquires "through political influence or bribery or whatever" from the state of Mississippi (262).