Isaac McCaslin
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Isaac McCaslin
Sort Name:
McCaslin, Isaac
AKA:
Uncle Ike
Ike McCaslin
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
McCaslin
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First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Thursday, January 1, 1857 to Thursday, December 31, 1857
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Biography:
Isaac "Uncle Ike" McCaslin is the central character in Go Down, Moses. In Intruder in the Dust he is "still alive at ninety" (91). In that earlier novel he is also Lucas Beauchamp's cousin, and shares Charles McCaslin's concern about social justice, but this novel doesn't locate him in either of those contexts. Instead, Chick thinks of him along with the other great men his grandfather told him about - the hunters who pursued "deer and bear and wild turkey . . . within twelve miles of Jefferson" (90) - just as he is about to set out on his own adventure beyond the Nine-Mile Branch.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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