Will Beard
Character Key Number:
875
Display Name:
Will Beard
Sort Name:
Beard, Will
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In Flags in the Dust Will Beard is a "mild, bleached man of indeterminate age and of less than medium size" (104), Will Beard owns a grist mill in Jefferson and probably owns the boarding house where Byron Snopes lives - though that is run by his wife. He is identified by the "evil reek" of his "black evil pipe" (104, 105).