Unnamed Negro Husband 1

Character Key Number: 
2143
Display Name: 
Unnamed Negro Husband 1
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Negro Husband 1
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

This is the man in Light in August who lives in a cabin "on the edge of town immediately behind" Hightower's house, and who seeks help from Hightower when his wife goes into labor (73). The narrative suggests that he is afraid to approach a white woman to ask for help: "Hightower knew that the man would walk all the way to town . . . instead of asking some white woman to telephone for him" (74).