Unnamed Members of Mob outside Wedding
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2427
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Unnamed Members of Mob outside Wedding
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Unnamed Members of Mob outside Wedding
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In Absalom! almost a hundred "boys and youths and men" gather outside the Methodist church to jeer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sutpen when they emerge from the wedding . The "men who composed the mob" are identified as men "from the drovers' tavern on the edge of town" (39), and as "traders and drovers and teamsters" (44).