Unnamed Negro Farmer 2
Character Key Number:
1178
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Farmer 2
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Farmer 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Driving out to the Caledonia cemetery on the Monday morning in Intruder in the Dust, Chick sees only a single Negro: a man plowing one of the fields along the road, "the face black and gleam[ing] with sweat and passionate with effort, tense concentrated and composed" (145). The white boy and the black man look "eye to eye into each other's face before the Negro looks away" (145).