Doc Meeks
Character Key Number:
3442
Display Name:
Doc Meeks
Sort Name:
Meeks, Doc
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Doc Meeks himself does not appear in The Mansion, but the "patent medicine truck" he drives around Yoknapatawpha advertises "Watkins Products" - a real manufacturer of health medicines that has been in business since just after the Civil War - on "both [its] sides and the back" (171). The novel describes those advertisements as the source of the name that the parents of Watkins Products Snopes gave their son.