Unnamed Barber 3
Character Key Number:
1005
Display Name:
Unnamed Barber 3
Sort Name:
Unnamed Barber 3
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The town barber in Sanctuary listens silently while Clarence Snopes complains about the "Memphis jew lawyer" who wouldn't pay full price for the information he was trying to sell, then slyly lets Clarence know how little of his story he accepts at face value (266). His open-mindedness identifies this barber with Henry Hawkshaw, the man who owns the Jefferson barber shop in Faulkner's short story "Dry September," published a month before Sanctuary appeared - but the barber in the novel is not named.