Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Sat, 2017-10-21 08:43
A brothel madam who helps out Montgomery Ward. He facetiously describes her appearance as "motherly," "weighing two hundred pounds in a wrapper fasted with safety pins" (80); on Saturday nights she wears "her big yellow diamonds" and an "evening gown" (83).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Sat, 2017-10-21 08:39
Mink Snopes says both that he "believes" that Fonzo Winbush is the nephew of Grover Winbush and that Fonzo is "Grover Winbush's nephew" (79, 81). He is definitely the young man who, at age eighteen, travels to Memphis with Virgil Snopes to attend barber college - a story that occupies a chapter in the earlier novel Sanctuary.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Sat, 2017-10-21 08:36
Sometimes referred to as "Uncle Wes" (97), Wesley Snopes is the father of Virgil and Byron, and a "revival song-leader" (79). It is likely that he was named after John Wesley, the founder of Methodism; Wesley Snopes is caught "after church" misbehaving with a "fourteen-year-old girl" and tarred-and-feathered (79).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Sat, 2017-10-21 08:33
Virgil Snopes is Uncle Wesley's youngest boy and apparently quite the lothario. After boarding at a Memphis brothel by accident, it is discovered that he has natural sexual prowess. He and his uncle Clarence Snopes parlay Virgil's sexual stamina into a dependable source of income.
This mill is the site of "the annual Varner's Mill picnic," a social event at which local politicians announce their candidacies (88). The mill is built next to a "mill pond," which provides water power to drive the machinery (137), though in this story, its proximity to what Ratliff calls "a dog thicket" is much more important.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Sat, 2017-10-21 08:14
Grover Winbush's wife is apparently very jealous and is convinced that the picture of a nude woman in the French postcard that Winbush bought from Montgomery Ward was actually Winbush's "private playmate" (77).
"Remish" is the "manufacturer's name" of the "compact smallish" organs that Ratliff peddles around Yoknapatawpha (87). He makes the instrument so popular that a part of the county - "a small collection of houses near a small store a few miles from Frenchman's Bend" (87) - decides to declare itself a town named "Remish."
