Jim Hamblett

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2020-02-08 15:15
Character Key Number: 
2378
Display Name: 
Jim Hamblett
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Hamblett, Jim
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In Absalom! Jim Hamblett is the "justice" in the courthouse when Charles E. S-V. Bon is arraigned for fighting at the "negro ball" (164). In the middle of scolding the prisoner as "a white man" for stirring up racial ill-will at the time that the South seeks "to rise from beneath the iron heel of a tyrant oppressor," he suddenly stops to ask the prisoner: "What are you?" (165).

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