Boys Named Remish

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2017-10-30 11:49
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"By the People"
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Boys Named Remish
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Boys Named Remish
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Boys Named Remish
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Courthouse and Square in "By the People" (Location)
Other Texts: 
The Mansion
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According to the narrator, the compact organs manufactured by "the Remish Musical Company of South Bend, Indiana," were so popular with the country folk in Frenchman's Bend that in time "boy children from that section were bearing into puberty and even manhood Remish as their Christian names" (87). The narrator of this story is not noticeably facetious, and Faulkner's country people in other stories name their children things like "Montgomery Ward," so there's no reason to think this is just a joke.

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