Unnamed Grocery Delivery Boy

This boy falls while delivering groceries to Popeye's mother on his bike in Sanctuary. By breaking the bottle of olive oil she ordered, he sets off a series of unfortunate incidents - but is himself unapologetic about the original mishap, telling the customer "you ought to buy that oil in cans" and "you want to have that gate fixed" (305).

Unnamed Customers of Goodwin

In Sanctuary Horace refers to Lee Goodwin's "good customers," the men of Yoknapatawpha who regularly bought whiskey illegally from him in the past but turned on him once he was arrested (127).

Unnamed Craps Dealer

In Sanctuary the Grotto employee in charge of the "crap table" (as the narrative calls it, though it is usually referred to as a craps table) is called "the dealer" when he speaks his one line in the novel: "'Eleven,' he said" (240).

Unnamed Taxi Driver 3

The taxi driver in "Death Drag" unsuccessfully tries to get Ginsfarb to tell him who jumps off the airplane in the barnstorming show.

Unnamed Taxi Driver 2

Sanctuary provides the "old" Kinston man who drives Horace home from the train with a fairly intricate story. "In the old days" he was at the head of local society, "a planter, a landholder, son of one of the first settlers." But when the town "boomed" into sudden prosperity, he lost his property "through greed and gullibility" and for the last several decades has made a living as a taxi driver. With his "gray moustache with waxed ends" and his "suit of grey striped with red," however, he still gives off an air of gentility (297-98).

Unnamed Congressman

Both times Ruby tells how the lawyer she hired got Lee out of prison in Sanctuary, she says he "got a congressman" (59, 278). Neither time does she go into any more details about the congressman.

Unnamed Committee of Baptists

The "committee" of Jefferson Baptists in Sanctuary who protest against allowing a woman like Ruby to stay in the town's hotel in do not directly appear. The proprietor of the hotel refers to "these church ladies," but it's not clear whether they were the committee - or the group that sent the committee. In either case, the proprietor tells Horace that "once [them ladies] get set on a thing," a man "might just as well give up and do like they say" (180).

Unnamed College Students

The various college students mentioned in Sanctuary can be assorted into two groups: the ones Temple thinks about and the ones Horace sees. (1) Temple brings her classmates to mind twice during her ordeal at the Frenchman's place: first, while lying in the dark at the Old Frenchman's place, when she thinks of "the slow couples strolling toward the sound of the supper bell" (51); and then, while hiding in the barn from Pap, when she imagines them "leaving the dormitories in their new spring clothes" toward the bells of the churches (87).

Unnamed College Girl

This is the girl in Sanctuary who told the Dean that Temple was "slipping out at night," in retaliation for the fact that Temple went out "with a boy she liked" (57).

Unnamed College Boy 3

On board the third and last train Horace takes on his way to Oxford in Sanctuary are two "young men in collegiate clothes with small cryptic badges on their shirts and vests" (168). This one is unnamed, but together with "Shack" he outwits the train conductor and jokes crudely about women.

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