Unnamed Hill Folk 2
Character Key Number:
2077
Display Name:
Unnamed Hill Folk 2
Sort Name:
Unnamed Hill Folk 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In "Monk" the residents of the hill country from which Monk hails are a "clannish people," and fiercely independent. These descendants of Scotch-Irish settlers live in a country "impenetrable and almost uncultivated" where they "intermarried and made whiskey and shot at all strangers from behind log barns and snake fences." The narrator points out that they seem to know "as little about him [Monk] as we did" (43).