This icon represents "the invisible spectators" in the courtroom who "gasp" at Nancy's response upon being given the death sentence (41). The play's second scene makes it clear that Temple and Gowan Stevens are among those present, but from the text's only description of the spectators - they are "invisible" - we cannot say that for sure. The spectators' reaction seems to be a collective one, though it's likely that unlike the white men who participate in the trial as lawyers, officers and jury members, this audience includes non-white and non-male people.
In the play's first scene, "a section of the court" is represented on stage, and the stage directions list "the judge, officers, the opposing lawyers, the jury" (39). The "judge" and one of the officers - the bailiff - speak in the scene, and so have their own Character entries. This entry represents the other men referred to, though it's unlikely that any production of the play would cast actors to represent the "opposing lawyers" or "the jury" on stage.
The "Bailiff" who commands "Order in the court!" in the play's brief first scene is not described at all (41). Our assumptions about his gender, race and class are based on the bailiffs who appear in courtrooms in other Yoknapatawpha fictions. We also assume that the "MAN'S VOICE" that opens the play, telling "the prisoner" from behind the theatrical curtain to "stand," also belongs to this Bailiff (38).
The "Judge" who pronounces Nancy's death sentence at the start of the play is not described at all (40). The phrase "his gavel" confirms the assumption that he is male - as are all the many judges in the Yoknapatawpha fictions; those other judges are also all 'white' and 'upper class,' which is the basis for our other assumptions about this judge (41).
These "grandchildren" of Lucas Beauchamp are mentioned only in the short story "A Point of Law," and the one reference to them there is ambiguous. "He had one daughter with grandchildren" (214) - this could mean that the grandchildren are his daughter's instead of his. No other details about them, or about Lucas' larger family, are given in this short story. (When Faulkner revised the story into the "Fire and the Hearth" chapter of Go Down, Moses, the phrase "one daughter with grandchildren" was omitted.)
The extended McCaslin family is again at the center of a novel. There are four Edmondses and four Beauchamps. There are six characters named McCaslin. Ike and his father Buck reappear briefly. The mention of Old Carothers acknowledges the "family skeleton" - that "old Lucius Quintus Carothers" had fathered a daughter with "a Negro slave" (31).
