Unnamed Train Passengers 7
Character Key Number:
941
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Unnamed Train Passengers 7
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Unnamed Train Passengers 7
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In both "Lion" and Go Down, Moses, the passengers on the train from Memphis to Hoke’s are “buttonholed” by Boon (188, 222), forced to listen to him talk about Lion, and too intimidated to tell him that he is not allowed to drink on the train. (Under the Jim Crow laws, railroad cars were racially segregated, so all these passengers would have been white.)