Unnamed Workers at Planing Mill
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2181
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Unnamed Workers at Planing Mill
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Unnamed Workers at Planing Mill
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
As a group the men who work at the planing mill in Light in August observe and comment on the appearance and behavior of Joe Christmas and Joe Brown during and after the nearly three years these two outsiders work there too. On the Saturday Lena arrives in Jefferson, they see the smoke of the fire and joke about it - and about the Burdens, who they see as outsiders too.