"A thick, muscle-bound, bullet-headed man" wearing a badly fitting dinner jacket (243), the bouncer at the Grotto club in Sanctuary is put to work when he tries to remove a rowdy guest at Red's funeral and is attacked by four men. The funeral ends when they crash into the bier and spill Red's body out of the coffin.
In Sanctuary the mother of Popeye's mother seems normal enough when first introduced, as someone who likes the strike-breaker who is Popeye's father. After being widowed, she has remarried a man who takes good care of her boarding house - until one day he disappears with all the money she had in the bank. Perhaps this event is what triggers her madness, a mixture of pyromania and paranoia.
The Mississippi Governor in "Monk" is almost surely modeled on Governor Theodore G. Bilbo, who served two terms in that office (1916-20 and 1928-32) and as a U.S. Senator from 1934 until his death in 1947. He, like the Governor in "Monk," is "a man without ancestry" (53), and is charged with trading in pardons for political gain. As a critic of the Governor's "puppet" Pardon Board, Gavin Stevens implies that the Governor is just another crooked politician more concerned with garnering votes than dispensing any actual justice; the Governor seems comfortable admitting that is the case.
This is not the Governor in Requiem who appears onstage in Act III but a "Governor of the State" who was once held in the Jefferson jail for thirty days after being sentenced for contempt of court (196). This episode is based on the real experience of former Mississippi Governor Theodore Bilbo, a native of Oxford, who in 1922 spent the same thirty days in jail. (The Governor who does appear onstage has his own entry in the index: see Governor Henry.)
No name is mentioned when Temple tells Ruby that the "gu-governor comes to our house" for dinner (56). The real Governor of Mississippi when Sanctuary was published was Theodore G. Bilbo, an outspoken white supremacist - but it's not necessary to believe that Faulkner intended readers to think of specifically of him. Temple's intention seems to be simply to assert her caste status as a shield.
The narrator of Sanctuary calls the man who fills Popeye's car up in Dumfries a "mechanic"; he indicates which way Temple went when she got out of the car (140).
Lee Goodwin has a relationship with this woman while he is stationed in the Philippines. Ruby calls her a "nigger" when telling Temple about how Lee killed another American soldier in a fight over her (59), but since Ruby would be likely to use that term for any non-white person, Negro or Hispanic, it leaves open the question of the woman's racial identity.
In the hallway of the Negro brothel that Clarence takes them to, Virgil and Fonzo see "a drunk white man in greasy overalls" arguing with two Negro men (198). His overalls identify him as lower class, and tell us something about the socio-economic standing of the brothel's clientele, but no other details, about the man or the argument, are given in Sanctuary.
All we know about this character in Sanctuary is that, when Horace asks the post office clerk at the University if he knows where Temple has gone, the clerk in reply asks him if he is "another detective" - suggesting that a detective of some kind has already been looking for Judge Temple's missing daughter (171). We don't even know if he is a private detective, or a policeman.
