"One of the grandsons" of the patriarchal Negro who provides the facilities for making molasses from sugar cane; he feeds the cane into the mill, and "roll[s] his eyes covertly" at Young Bayard and Narcissa as they watch the process (288).
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Sat, 2012-04-07 14:20
The home of Major de Spain, this is one of the biggest plantation houses in Yoknapatawpha County. It is a grand columned mansion set in a "grove of oaks and cedars and other flowering trees and shrubs" (10). Fronted by a "fence massed with honeysuckle and Cherokee roses," it is accessed by "a gate swinging open between two brick pillars" (10). Sarty is struck by its size - "It's as big as a courthouse," he thinks - and associates it with "peace and dignity" (10). Ab claims that the white columns represent black labor: "'Pretty and white, ain't it?' he said. "That's sweat.
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Sat, 2012-04-07 14:10
The De Spains, father and son, appear often enough in Faulkner's fictions and the history of Yoknapatawpha to make the family one of the county's more important ones. And the mansion that the father builds and in which his son lives until the end of The Town, when Flem Snopes moves in, is the mansion in the title of the last volume in the Snopes trilogy. But unlike the other big houses that Faulkner plots on his maps - the Sartorises, the Compsons, Sutpen's and so on - he moves the De Spain place around a lot.
This icon represents the unspecified groups of Union soldiers and officers who are mentioned - often with extreme bias - in the novel. For example, the "drunken Yankee generals [who] set fire to the house your great-great-great-grandfather built" that Aunt Jenny refers to (50).
One of the three black males who are present in the MacCallum household when Young Bayard arrives. His role in the family or on the family's land is not clear.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2012-04-03 10:48
One of the major characters in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, in Flags in the Dust he is merely referred to in one paragraph. But this one passage does outline Flem's rise from his poor white origins in Frenchman's Bend to his current position as vice-president of the bank founded and run by Old Bayard Sartoris, as well as his practice - "like Abraham of old" (166) - of bringing other Snopeses in to Jefferson in what the narrative implies is a kind of assault on the town.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2012-04-03 10:48
One of I.O. Snopes' sons; after faking a heart condition to evade the draft, he accompanies Horace Benbow as to World War I as a non-combatant. (Three decades later, in The Town, readers learn the details about this Snopes' decidedly unheroic actions in France.)
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2012-04-03 10:48
The Confederate officer who prevents J.E.B. Stuart from following Carolina Bayard on his reckless quest for anchovies by reminding him of his duty to the army.
