Unnamed Negro Yardmen 2
Character Key Number:
2154
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Yardmen 2
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Yardmen 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
When McEachern tells him about "work" in Light in August, Joe understands what it means by remembering that "he had seen work going on in the person of men with rakes and shovels about the playground [of the Memphis orphanage] six days each week" (144). Based on the kind of work these men are doing, and the patterns of the Yoknapatawpha fictions as a group, it seems very likely that these men are black.