Virgil Beard

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2019-08-03 13:32
Character Key Number: 
876
Display Name: 
Virgil Beard
Sort Name: 
Beard, Virgil
Parent Character Key: 
Mrs. Beard
Will Beard
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In Flags in the Dust Virgil Beard is a "pale, quiet boy of twelve or so" (104), the son of the people who own the boarding house where Byron Snopes lives. To disguise his handwriting in the letters he sends Narcissa, Byron gets Virgil to write them by promising to buy him an air rifle. Despite Snopes' attempts to dodge that promise, Virgil is shrewd enough to make sure that he gets his gun - and uses it to kill a mockingbird.

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