Unnamed Little Boys

Character Key Number: 
405
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Unnamed Little Boys
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Unnamed Little Boys
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

Mentioned only once in "A Rose for Emily," the groups of "little boys" who follow Homer and his gang of construction workers as they pave the town's sidewalks are equally fascinated by the white man's profanity and the black men's singing (124).