The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

During his youth in Frenchman's Bend, Clarence Snopes is the leader of a "gang of cousins and toadies" (328) who terrorized the community.

Doris Snopes is the youngest brother of of Clarence Snopes. He "resembles Clarence not only in size and shape but [has] the same mentality of a child and the moral principles of a wolverine" (327).

The icon represents the larger group of captured U.S. servicemen with whom Charles Mallison is confined in a German "POW camp at Limbourg" (323).

These men are the crew of the bomber on which Charles Mallison is the bombardier and Plex is the pilot. After their plane is shot down behind enemy lines, they all end up in German prisoner-of-war camps together.

Harold Baddrington is a pilot who serves with Charles Mallison during World War Two. He gets his nickname "Plexiglass" on account of his obsession with cellophane, "which he called plexiglass" (323).

Two men run the pawn shop that sells Mink a gun. They are described as being "blue-jowled as pirates" (320).

Mink sees "a few Negroes" shopping - "trafficking" is the word the narrative uses - in "the small dingy store" in Memphis where he buys animal crackers (319).

While he's in Memphis in The Mansion, Mink goes into a "dingy store" where he sees a "Negro man" who seems to be "running it" and "maybe he even owned it": after all his time in prison Mink wonders if "the new laws" mean a black man "could even own a store" (319).

This is the policeman who drives Mink out of the train station in Memphis; he is "not in uniform," and much more aggressive than the policeman who drove Mink out of the park (318).

The icon represents the girl or more likely girls with whom Mink has had sex while growing up white and male in Frenchman's Bend: the "furious unplanned episodes" with an "almost invisible unwashed Negro girl" in a roadside ditch or the middle of a cotton field (317).