Uncle Ike McCaslin

Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Tue, 2017-10-03 10:57
Text: 
"A Bear Hunt"
Character Key: 
Isaac McCaslin
Display Name: 
Uncle Ike McCaslin
Sort Name: 
McCaslin, Uncle Ike
AKA: 
Isaac McCaslin
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
McCaslin
Family (new): 
McCaslinsInABH
First Mentioned: 
Hunting Stand 1 in "Bear Hunt" in "A Bear Hunt" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"Delta Autumn"
"Fool About a Horse"
"Lion"
"Race at Morning"
"The Old People"
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
The Hamlet
The Reivers
Biography: 

Ike McCaslin is a major character in several of Faulkner's fictions, especially Go Down, Moses. But in this earlier story, he is simply one of the poker-playing hunters at Major de Spain's camp who complains about how the noise from Luke’s hiccups would scare away game, saying, "Do you reckon any varmint in the world is going to walk up to a hay baler?" (69). There is no mention of the family he belongs to, but his dialect ("noways," "durn," 74) suggest he is probably lower class.

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

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