Caspey
Text:
Character Key:
Display Name:
Caspey
Sort Name:
Caspey
AKA:
Caspey Strother
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Strother
Family (new):
Occupation:
Criminal
First Mentioned:
Origin:
Yoknapatawpha
Other Texts:
Biography:
Caspey is only mentioned in the story, when he is identified as "Elnora's husband" (727), although in Flags in the Dust, he is Elnora's brother. In that novel he returns from in France and World War I with a lot of anger against the place he is supposed to occupy in the region's Jim Crow system, though after a violent reprimand from (Old) Bayard Sartoris, he resumes his role as a loyal servant. In this story he is serving a sentence in the penitentiary for robbery or burglary, but no further details of his life are provided.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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