Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2017-10-23 11:13
Eck follows Flem into Jefferson from Frenchman's Bend. In the chapter he narrates, Chapter 4, Montgomery Ward Snopes says that Eck Snopes and two sons, wallstreet Panic and Admiral Dewey, "dont belong to us" - the rest of the Snopes family - and calls them "our shame" (93). That's because Eck and his sons are hard-working and honest.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2017-10-23 11:07
The plucky, young son of Eck Snopes. He "never looked like" a Snopes: "a tall dark man except for the eyes of an incredible tender youthful periwinkle blue" (461). And he "had never acted like a Snopes" (461): through hard work in and out of school, Wallstreet ends up running a wholesale grocery in Jefferson "by the outrageous unSnopesish method of jest selling ever body exactly what they thought they was buying, for exactly what they thought they was going to pay for it" (170).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2017-10-23 11:04
I.O. is the father of Clarence and Montgomery Ward Snopes (though they have different mothers; I.O. is a bigamist) and a prominent character in the previous Snopes stories. He is only mentioned in passing here, but Montgomery Ward does mention that I.O. is "first cousin" to Flem Snopes (75).
The character who calls himself Captain Strutterbuck tells Montgomery Ward Snopes that his combat experiences include serving with "Black Jack" Pershing "on the Border in '16" (84). He may even be telling the truth. In response to the Mexican Revolution, units of the U.S. Army under Pershing's command fortified a number of positions along the border, and beginning in 1910 there was open military conflict between the two sides. The fighting reached a climax in 1916 in New Mexico and northern Mexico.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2017-10-23 10:31
Bryon Snopes worked for the bank that Flem later heads, but Byron steals money from it and then flees to Mexico; his character is much more fully developed in Flags in the Dust. He sends his children back to Yoknapatawpha, but it isn't long before Yoknapatawpha sends them back to him.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2017-10-23 10:28
She sends Strutterbuck a money order for two dollars. Reba and Minnie discuss whether she is "his sister or his daughter" or "his wife" (90-91); according to Minnie, "nobody but his wife" would send him two dollars (91). She lives in Lonoke, Arkansas.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2017-10-23 10:22
According to the highly fictionalized if not entirely false account Strutterbuck provides about his experience in World War I, his hopes of getting the job driving General Pershing were thwarted by "a Sergeant Somebody, I forget his name" (84).
Both Gavin Stevens and his nephew Charles Mallison spend time in Europe, Gavin as a doctoral student in Heidelberg before the First World War and Charles as a tourist in "Britain, France, Italy" (230) and especially "the Paris of Hemingway and the Paris of Scott Fitzgerald" (231) before the Second. In both cases "Europe" is defined the context created by those two wars; during Charles' travels, for example, he sees "too many soldiers" (231). Charles is also one of the two characters in The Mansion who serve in Europe during World War II.
