Unnamed Negroes in City Honky-Tonks
Character Key Number:
2437
Display Name:
Unnamed Negroes in City Honky-Tonks
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negroes in City Honky-Tonks
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
This is one of the two groups of men in Absalom! from whom Charles E. C-V. Bon - a "white-colored man" (167) with a "coal black" wife (166) - deliberately provokes a racial reaction: "the negro [men] . . . in city honky-tonks who thought he was a white man" (167).