Unnamed Husband of Frony

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Unnamed Husband of Frony
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Unnamed Husband of Frony
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
Gibson
Family (new): 
Occupation: 
Transportation
Specific Job: 
Pullman Porter
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This man is the "pullman porter" whom Frony Gibson marries and moves to St. Louis to live with (343). He may be dead - that would be one explanation for the fact that Frony can move to Memphis later "to make a home for her mother" (343) - but the text does not say so, nor does it give him a name. It's also possible that this man is Luster's "pappy" in The Sound and the Fury, though there's not enough textual evidence to establish that. (Pullman porters were black men, many of them former slaves, who worked on the sleeping cars on passenger trains as porters.)

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