Will Starnes

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Will Starnes
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Starnes, Will
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White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dies
Cause of Death: 
Old Age
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Will Starnes is the father of Henry Stribling's (Hawkshaw) first fiancee, Sophie Starnes. He owns a house and land, all mortgaged. Starnes is lazy - some people suggest he may have died because "he was too lazy to keep on breathing" - and unambitious, "satisfied to be a landowner as long as he had enough to eat and a little tobacco" (138). He does not object to Sophie's engagement to Stribling, whom Mrs. Starnes considers to be beneath them.

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