Unnamed Residents at Mrs. Littlejohn's

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Unnamed Residents at Mrs. Littlejohn's
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Unnamed Residents at Mrs. Littlejohn's
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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These women and (mostly) men stay at Mrs. Littlejohn's "hotel" in The Hamlet. In the Ike Snopes' narrative, Faulkner refers to them as "last night's new drummer-faces" - i.e. traveling salesmen who are staying for one night (182). While they can be classified as a group, these individuals are constantly coming and going, staying in Frenchman's Bend for variable amounts of time. Typically only men stay in Yoknapatawpha boarding houses, but in this case we know that Mrs. Armstid stays at Littlejohn's while her husband recovers.