Unnamed Parisian Beggars
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Unnamed Parisian Beggars
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Unnamed Parisian Beggars
Race:
White
Gender:
Multi Gender Group
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Alive
Specific Job:
Begging
First Mentioned:
Origin:
France
Biography:
During Horace's first conversation with Lee Goodwin in his jail cell, the child that Ruby is holding is compared by the narrator to "the children which beggars on Paris streets carry" (116). Horace has been to France, and is carrying a French novel when the novel begins. The novel's final scene is set in Paris. Still, in the immediate context of the narrow cell that confines Goodwin, the narrative's sudden evocation of life half a world away from Yoknapatawpha comes as a surprise.
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Group
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