Because they felt sorry about his handicap, the unnamed law professors who taught Eustace Graham at the "State University," we're told, "groomed him like a race-horse" (262).
Though Eustace Graham is the county's District Attorney, his office - which is described by the narrative as "dingy" (263) - is his own personal law office. It is up a flight of stairs from a building that contains two stores at street level.
Though Eustace Graham is the county's District Attorney in Sanctuary, the office where Narcissa Sartoris meets with him is his own personal law office - just as in other fictions Gavin Stevens conducts his work as County Attorney from his own office. Like Gavin's, Graham's is up a flight of stairs from a building that contains stores at street level. Inside it is described as "dingy" (263).
Despite his name, "Uncle Bud" is a "small bullet-headed boy of five or six" (250), "with freckles like splotches of huge summer rain on a sidewalk" (251). He is related somehow to Miss Myrtle, though he is only staying with her temporarily, and will soon "go back home" (252) to "a Arkansaw farm" (251) - perhaps the same Arkansas orphanage where the four children whom Reba is supporting live. He is adept at "snitching beer" (253); after he breaks into the icebox and drinks a whole bottle, he brings Chapter 25 to a close by throwing up.
Miss Lorraine is one of the two women who come back to the brothel with Miss Reba after Red's funeral. (The context suggests they might be madams at other Memphis brothels, but that is not made explicit in the text.) Lorraine is the "thin woman in sober, severe clothes and gold nose-glasses" (250). The narrator refers to her "flat spinster's breast" (256) and several times compares her appearance to that of "a school-teacher" (251, 258).
Miss Myrtle is one of the two women who coms back to the brothel with Miss Reba after the funeral for Red. (The context suggests they might be madams at other Memphis brothels, but that is not made explicit in the text.) Myrtle is the "short plump woman in a plumed hat" who is accompanied by Uncle Bud, a "boy of five or six" (250). She may be his mother, though her attempt to discipline him for drinking from their beers is half-hearted at best.
Popeye, who is himself impotent, brings Red into Temple's life as a surrogate sexual partner for her - turning Reba's "respectable" brothel, as she indignantly puts it, "into a peep-show" (255). When Temple tries to run away with Red, however, Popeye kills him. Red "looked like a college boy" (235), but is part of the Memphis underworld. Temple offers to go with him "Anywhere" (238), and warns him that Popeye plans to kill him, but her interest in him seems entirely sexual; her physical longing for him is graphically portrayed.
