The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

The hypothetical prosecuting attorney prisoners threaten when incarcerated.

The hypothetical Judge prisoners threaten when incarcerated.

Gavin Stevens's Harvard classmate helps him get a petition to the Governor for Mink's release, and also helps Stevens track Mink down later. (A former Harvard classmate of Gavin, also unnamed, appears in Light in August, but there's no way to know if Faulkner is thinking of the same man here.)

The foreman of the "Grand Jury" that found Mink guilty is in later life "a hale (hence still quick) eighty-five"; he runs "a small electric-driven corn-mill" but also spends a lot of time "hunting and fishing with Uncle Ike McCaslin" (407). (Faulkner may have meant "jury," because Grand Juries of course prepare indictments, and don't deliver verdicts.)

Ephriam Bishop is the County Sheriff when Mink is released from prison. He and Hub Hampton alternate being Sheriff every four years.

The people who are in the bank lobby to witness Gavin Stevens' negotiation to take out a loan on his car are described simply as "not only all the staff but the moment's complement of customers" (401).

As a sign of the post-war "industrial renascene and rejuvenation," the Snopes bank now had a "vice president imported from Memphis" (400). He is not named or described.

After World War II, as a result of the "progress, industrial renascence and rejuvenation" that has reached "even rural Mississippi banks," the Snopes bank employs a "professional cashier or working vice president imported from Memphis" (400).

In a passage that provides a rare glimpse into Stevens' life after he marries the wealthy Melisandre Backus, the narrator describes his discomfort whenever "guests, even the same guest or guests again," came to dinner (399).

McKinley Smith hires a "professional" carpenter to help him build his house (374).