Jupe

Character Key Number: 
3038
Display Name: 
Jupe
Sort Name: 
Jupe
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

One of the men in the group of "five or six" Negroes in Light in August who encounter Christmas at night on his way back to the Burden place is called "Jupe" (117). He identifies Christmas as "a white man" and in a voice that is neither "threatful" nor "servile" asks him who he is looking for (117).

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