Major de Spain
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Major de Spain
Sort Name:
De Spain, Major
AKA:
Major Cassius de Spain
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Administrative
Specific Job:
County Sheriff
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
There are at least two characters named "Major de Spain" in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, one who was an actual Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and another who is his son, called "Major" as a kind of honorific. The Major de Spain in this novel is the father, one of "the men of Sutpen's own kind," the "men who had led the way" during the War," now serving as "sheriff" of the county (232). He tries to take Wash Jones into custody without violence.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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