Unnamed Chauffeurs

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2020-01-24 11:21
Character Key Number: 
1814
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Unnamed Chauffeurs
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Unnamed Chauffeurs
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

In Sanctuary six "liveried chauffeurs" - all presumably employed by a funeral home - drive the otherwise empty "Packard touring cars" that follow the hearse carrying Red's body to the cemetery (249). The odds are good that Faulkner imagined them as Negroes, like the other drivers and chauffeurs in his fictions, but in this text their race is not specified.

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