Brother J.C. Goodyhay
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Brother J.C. Goodyhay
Sort Name:
Goodyhay, Brother J.C.
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
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Biography:
A former "Marine sergeant" (295) who, after seeing a vision of Jesus during a battle in the Pacific, comes back to the U.S. to run a religious community out of his ramshackle house. His wife reportedly "ran off" with a salesman while Goodyhay was at war (294). He is described as "a lean quick-moving man in the middle thirties with coldly seething eyes and the long upper lip of a lawyer or an orator and the long chin of the old-time comic trip Puritan" (293). According to his mailbox, Goodyhay's initials are "J C" (292), and in his case - as opposed to the name Faulkner gives Joe Christmas in Light in August - the connection with Jesus may not be ironic. Faulkner makes Goodyhay a good man.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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