Major Hoxey

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2020-01-29 09:45
Character Key Number: 
2052
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Major Hoxey
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Hoxey, Major
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In "Centaur in Brass" the mayor of Jefferson who is reportedly having an affair with Mrs. Flem Snopes is named Hoxey; according to town gossip, this affair account's for "her husband's rise in Hoxey's administration" (151). Hoxey is described the town's "lone rich middle-aged bachelor" and "a graduate of Yale" (151). His relationship with Mrs. Snopes clearly prefigures Eula Snopes' and Mayor Manfred de Spain's affair in the last two volumes of the Snopes trilogy.

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