Mrs. I.O. Snopes
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Mrs. I.O. Snopes
Sort Name:
Snopes, Mrs. I.O.
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Poor White
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Snopes
Family (new):
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Biography:
I.O. calls himself "a single man, unfortunately" (225), but to the surprise of Frenchman's Bend, three years after he arrived in the hamlet he turns out to have a wife, a "big gray-colored woman" (292). When she appears with "a baby six months old" in a carriage, I.O. "takes one look at that buggy" and vanishes (293). Her character is not developed further in this novel. (In the next novel in the Snopes trilogy, The Town, it turns out that this is only one of I.O.'s wives - he is a bigamist.)
Note:
CUT: He first marries this woman, a "young" wife with whom he has had two sons, Saint Elmo and Montgomery Ward. After I.O. has established himself with another wife in Frenchman's Bend, she arrives there with the infant Montgomery (292, 352). Vernon Tull tells Ratliff that she is a "big gray-colored woman" (292).
Individual or Group:
Individual
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