The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

Flem Snopes watches "clients coming and going to leave their money or draw it out" (146). Many of these customers are alarmed when they find out Flem "had withdrawn his own money from the bank of which he himself was vice president and put it somewhere else" (274). Some of the bank's patrons inform Wallstreet Panic's wife that despite her orders he has asked Flem Snopes for a loan to save his business. And presumably one of these people is the "somebody" who, according to Charles, "claimed to have seen Mr Snopes himself, unchanged too, unhurried and unalarmed, . . .

This entry represents the boys who appear or are referred to in various passages in the novel. For example, Mink Snopes called out from the jail to passing boys "he could trust would deliver his message" to Flem Snopes (85). "All the boys in town" appreciate Eck Snopes' goodness and the "raw peanuts" he is always willing to share with them (116). "All the boys in Jefferson between six and twelve years old and sometimes even older" enjoy stealing watermelons from Ab Snopes' patch, then watching him rage about the loss (138).

Wall Snopes hires this boy "to come before daylight on the winter mornings to build the fire and sweep" the grocery store (136).

This unnamed grocery store owner is young Wallstreet Panic's employer. In time, Wall becomes his partner.

Linda Snopes is the illegitimate child of Eula Varner and Hoke McCarron. When McCarron runs away from the news of her pregnancy, Eula's father marries her to Flem Snopes, who becomes Linda's father in the eyes of Yoknapatawpha. Linda grows up in rebellion and opposition to Flem, though her desire to protect her mother's reputation leaves her vulnerable to his manipulation. Highly intelligent, she is accomplished in school. She attends college in Oxford, and from there goes to the Greenwich Village, where she first lives with and then marries the Jewish sculptor Barton Kohl.

Two cattle-buyers are brought in as experts to judge the value of the heifer that Mink Snopes wintered in Houston's pasture.

This man works as Houston's farmhand. We see him entirely from Mink Snopes' perspective, which is colored by his racial resentment of Henry as a Negro who, thanks to his rich white employer, wears "warmer clothing than any he and his [poor white] family possessed" (12).

Houston hires this woman "to cook" for him after his wife is killed (11), so presumably she is not the same cook as the one mentioned in The Hamlet, who cooks for Mr. and Mrs. Houston during the first two months of their marriage.

Mink claims he sold his cow to "one of the Gowrie boys up at Caledonia Chapel" (11). In Intruder in the Dust Nub Gowrie is the memorable father of a set of Gowrie boys, but in this novel Houston identifies the "boy" to whom Mink supposedly sold the cow as "Nub" (15). It later becomes apparent that he is a moonshiner.

Mink's wife Yettie "cant read and write neither" (55). She dies while Mink is serving his sentence at Parchman.