Unnamed Twin Nephews of Devries
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Unnamed Twin Nephews of Devries
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Unnamed Twin Nephews of Devries
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
When Ratliff calls Devries two nephews "them foreign twin boys" in "By the People," he means they are not from Yoknapatawpha (138). In that story and again in The Mansion, they are apparently old enough to understand "what might happen" if Clarence Snopes' legs are anointed by "damp switches" from the dog thicket, and to know how to do so without getting caught (138, 349).