Judge Long

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2019-08-02 14:48
Character Key Number: 
401
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Judge Long
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Long, Judge
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In The Town Judge Long is the local judge who doesn't preside over Montgomery Ward Snopes' trial; in The Mansion, on the other hand, Judge Long is the presiding judge at Montgomery Ward Snopes' trial. Apparently between writing the two books Faulkner forgot the trouble that Flem Snopes went to in the first one to make sure his relative never appeared in Long's courtroom. In this second novel, Montgomery Ward refers to him as "that old sanctimonious lantern-jawed son of a bitch up there on that Federal bench" (77).

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