Unnamed White Boy 1

Character Key Number: 
972
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Unnamed White Boy 1
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Unnamed White Boy 1
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

In The Sound and the Fury the boy who carries suitcases as part of Deacon's ritual way of greeting new Harvard students from the South is white. When Quentin remembers being met this way, he describes "a moving mountain of luggage" that was being carried by "a white boy of about fifteen" (97).