Captain Bean

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2020-02-07 08:12
Character Key Number: 
2326
Display Name: 
Captain Bean
Sort Name: 
Bean, Captain
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

The Memphis man whom the narrator of "Uncle Willy" identifies as "Captain Bean at the airport" refuses to teach Willy how to fly without a certificate from a doctor but is willing to teach Secretary, Willy's black driver - which seems to flaunt the rules of segregation (241). His title suggests he may be an ex-World War I aviator, like many other flyers in Faulkner's fictions, but that is conjecture.

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