Unnamed Negro Hotel Porter
Character Key Number:
1873
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Hotel Porter
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Hotel Porter
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The "negro porter of the hotel" where Ruby stays in Sanctuary (135) briefly appears in three separate scenes: showing Ruby to her room in Chapter 16, fetching Horace to the hotel in Chapter 17, and showing Horace where he can wait for a train in Chapter 29. Faulkner may have been thinking of one man in all three cases, or two, or three.