Unnamed Negro "Pappy"

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2020-02-01 12:59
Character Key Number: 
2139
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Unnamed Negro "Pappy"
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Unnamed Negro "Pappy"
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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The Negro who gives Christmas a ride into Mottstown in Light in August tells him that he is going there to pick up "a yellin calf" that "pappy bought" (339). "Yellin" almost certainly means 'yearling,' and "pappy" presumably means 'father.'

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