The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

More a symbol of modernity than a character, he is driving badly and wearing "a woman's stocking wrapped about his head and tied beneath his hat" when he swerves into the path of Young Bayard's car, causing the accident in which Old Bayard dies (326).

A young woman whom Byron Snopes has courted in the past, and whom he "paws" in a sordid attempt at sex on his flight from town after robbing the bank (281). She seems unfazed by his behavior, though she is also unaccommodating, ordering him to "come back tomorrer, when you git over this" (281).

Father of Minnie Sue Turpin, whom Byron Snopes stops to see on his flight from Jefferson after robbing the bank. He may be one of the two Turpins who is mentioned in The Mansion, or Turpin may be another clan in Frenchman's Bend. He is clearly a shiftless farmer.

Pappy's son, the "younger" of the two Negroes who help Young Bayard after his car goes off the bridge; he treats Bayard's broken body with great gentleness.

Pappy is the "older negro" (213) of the two who rescue Young Bayard after his car goes off the bridge and carry him home; he is suspicious both of meddling with a white man and of the automobile. The "younger negro" is his son, John Henry (213).

The town marshal who follows Miss Jenny's orders to get care of Young Bayard, giving up his own bed in the jail building to allow Sartoris to sleep off the effects of his fall and his drinking. (In later fictions the marshal named "Buck" is given two different last names: Conner in "Centaur in Brass" and Light in August, and Connors in The Town; we assume these are all the same man.)

One of the "three negroes" who accompany Young Bayard on his drunken trip to the neighboring college town to serenade the co-eds. He plays either the bass viol or the guitar.

One of the "three negroes" who accompany Young Bayard on his drunken trip to the neighboring college town to serenade the co-eds. He plays either the bass viol or the guitar.

The only named one among the three black musicians who accompany Young Bayard, Hub and Mitch on their trip to the neighboring college town to serenade young women. Reno plays the clarinet, and loses his hat when Bayard steps on the gas of his roadster.

One of the two "young" white men (the other is Hub) who spend an evening with Young Bayard, along with Reno and two other young black men, drinking, driving and serenading ladies out of and in Jefferson. Mitch sings "Goodnight, Ladies" in a "true, oversweet tenor" voice (143). He is a "freight agent" (140), and may be the same character as Mitch Ewing in "Hair."