Unnamed Father-in-Law of Trusty
Character Key Number:
3488
Display Name:
Unnamed Father-in-Law of Trusty
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Unnamed Father-in-Law of Trusty
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
"The gal's paw" (424) - that is how Ratliff refers in The Mansion to the father of the wife whom the penitentiary trusty had killed. This man has "swore he would kill [the trusty] the first time he crossed the Parchman fence" (424).