Unnamed Negro Brother-in-Law

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2020-01-19 08:34
Character Key Number: 
1571
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Unnamed Negro Brother-in-Law
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Unnamed Negro Brother-in-Law
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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In Flags in the Dust the black man in whose barn Bayard spends Christmas eve tells him that his "brudder-in-law" borrowed his mules, and so Bayard will have to wait for a ride to the next town (365). When the mules "miraculously" appear later on Christmas day, the narrator refers to the "yet uncorporeal brother-in-law" (366) - seeming to imply that the Negro invented him.

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