Unnamed Local Casualty of War

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2020-02-28 16:49
Character Key Number: 
3081
Display Name: 
Unnamed Local Casualty of War
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Local Casualty of War
Parent Character Key: 
Unnamed Parents of Local War Casualty
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

When in "Knight's Gambit" Charles Mallison passes through Jefferson at the start of World War II, he has a kind of prevision of a young man from Yoknapatawpha whose death during the fighting overseas will be reported in the local paper, along with a photograph showing "the country-boy face" inside "the uniform still showing the creases of the quartermaster shelves" (251).

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