Lieutenant Colonel Scott T. Chancellor, speechwriter and analyst for the Chief of Staff of the Army, taught at the United States Military Academy before moving to the Pentagon. He hosted the 2012 conference "Faulkner and West Point at 50: The Writer in Public," and is editing a volume of papers from it. He is also working on a manuscript entitled Faulkner's Judaism: Unraveling the Myths of Origins.
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Sun, 2014-08-03 21:52
This man who works in "the yard" of the Memphis orphanage is never named, and appears in the novel only through the story that Doc Hines tells Hightower in Jefferson (383). But when, according to Hines' story, the young Joe Christmas asks him "How come you are a nigger?" (383) his anger is memorable and the response he makes is portentous. Though at first he calls Christmas a "little white trash bastard," he adds, "You are worse than that. You dont know what you are. And more than that, you wont never know . . ." (384).
