Saint Elmo Snopes
Character Key Number:
232
Display Name:
Saint Elmo Snopes
Sort Name:
Snopes, Saint Elmo
Parent Character Key:
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
As a child, a hulking and "bear-shaped" figure, Saint Elmo eats all of the candy in Varner's case (350). A son of I.O. Snopes from his first marriage, he appears only in The Hamlet. (The names of the various Snopeses come from a variety of sources; Saint Elmo's name comes from the title of an 1866 novel by Georgia author Augusta Jane Evans.)