Snopeses

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2014-09-03 08:39
Text: 
Flags in the Dust
Character Key: 
Snopeses
Display Name: 
Snopeses
Sort Name: 
Snopeses
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
Poor White
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
Snopes
First Mentioned: 
Benbow House in Flags in the Dust (Location)
Origin: 
Frenchman's Bend
Biography: 

After Aunt Sally asks Horace about "your Snopes" (the man who went to France with Horace), the narrator describes briefly the "seemingly inexhaustible family which for the last ten years had been moving to town in driblets from a small settlement known as Frenchman's Bend" (166). Led by Flem, they have "spread" and "multiplied and flourished" in Jefferson (167). Snopeses and "Snopesism" play a major role in the Yoknapatawpha fictions as a group. In Flags in the Dust only Bryon Snopes figures in the narrative.

Individual or Group: 
Group
Character changes class in this text: 

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