Joe
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Joe
Sort Name:
Joe
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
First Mentioned:
Biography:
Joe is “a man not large, but with tremendous arms and shoulders; an adult, yet with something childlike about him” (68). Like Lonnie Grinnup, Joe has severe mental disabilities, being “deaf and dumb” (68). Joe, an “orphan” (70, 71), was “adopted” by Lonnie Grinnup, to whom he is fiercely loyal.
Disability:
cognitively disabled
psychosocially impaired
Individual or Group:
Individual
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