Unnamed Jailer
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Unnamed Jailer
Sort Name:
Unnamed Jailer
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Administrative
Specific Job:
Jailer
First Mentioned:
Biography:
This jailer helps subdue the Negro widower whose grief sends him into a frenzy. He appears by name - Ketcham - in "Pantaloon in Black" and again in Go Down, Moses, where the event Temple is re-telling first occurs; there the widower's name is Rider. (The novel spells it "jailer" in reference to this man, 156; it uses the spelling "jailor" for its two other jailers, the "jailor" named Farmer, 179; and the "JAILOR" named Tubbs who appears in the dramatic section of Act III, 209. Both "jailer" and "jailor" are legitimate spellings, but the first is more common in American usage.)
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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