Louis Hatcher
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Louis Hatcher
Sort Name:
Hatcher, Louis
AKA:
Uncle Louis
Unc' Louis
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Domestic Service
First Mentioned:
Biography:
Louis Hatcher is an elderly black man who goes possum hunting with Quentin and Versh on a windless October night. Thinking of him, Quentin notes that he "never even used his [hunting] horn carrying it" (114). He does use the lantern he carries, but the last time he cleaned it, he tells Quentin, was during the 1889 flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; he and his wife Martha were afraid the flood waters would reach Yoknapatawpha. It is possible but unlikely that he is the "Louis" who teaches Caddy how to drive a car (93).
Financial Status:
poor (controls limited wealth)
Individual or Group:
Individual
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