Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2017-10-20 09:59
Vernon Tull is a local farmer who regularly appears on the periphery Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fictions (and once, in As I Lay Dying, in a more important narrative role). He is hardworking and good-natured if a bit henpecked. (There are "Tulls" among Eula's suitors [130], but it's unlikely that Vernon is one of them.)
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2017-10-20 09:50
It's likely that "the mail carrier" (33) and "the mail rider" (140) who deliver the mail to Frenchman's Bend are the same unnamed person. As the "rider" he delivers a "special wrote-out private message" from Hoke McCarron to Eula Varner (140). As the "carrier," he also gives Mink a ride to Jefferson, until he kicks Mink off the wagon for accusing him of stealing his five-dollar bill (33). The next day, however, he is willing to take Mink back to Frenchman's Bend.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2017-10-20 09:47
One of the members of the very large Snopes clan, Lump plays a relatively minor part in The Mansion as the man who takes Flem's place managing Varner's store in Frenchman's Bend.
Uncle Willy Christian is the owner of the family drugstore. His family has a long history in Jefferson, and he is a morphine addict. He is also the central character in Faulkner's 1935 short story "Uncle Willy."
Walter is Willy Christian's janitor: "His grandfather had belonged to Uncle Willy's grandfather before the Surrender" (167). He and Willy have a lot in common, according to Charles Mallison, except that "if anything Walter was a little more irascible," and instead of morphine, Walter has a weakness for the store's "medicinal alcohol" (167).
Jason Compson, a major character in The Sound and the Fury as Quentin's, Caddy's and Benjy's brother, appears in this novel as the agent who collects rent for his mother on the Atelier Monty property that she owns.
