Unnamed Train Passengers 2
Character Key Number:
940
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Unnamed Train Passengers 2
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Unnamed Train Passengers 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In As I Lay Dying, Darl notes "the heads turning like the heads of owls" as he is taken down the aisle of the train car, laughing (253). These other passengers have an obvious reason to stare at him. (Under the Jim Crow laws, railroad cars were racially segregated, so all these passengers would have been white.)