Zack Edmonds
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Zack Edmonds
Sort Name:
Edmonds, Zack
Parent:
AKA:
Zachary Edmonds
Old Zach Edmonds
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Dies
Family:
McCaslin
Family (new):
Occupation:
Management
Specific Job:
Plantation Owner
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Thursday, January 1, 1874 to Thursday, December 31, 1874
Other Texts:
Biography:
Zachary is the son of Cass and Alice Edmonds and the great-great-grandson (on the "distaff" side, 5) of the patriarch Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin. Zack was raised alongside his Negro cousin Lucas Beauchamp, and as boys they lived "almost as brothers lived" (54). But Zack grows up to inherit the plantation and Lucas grows up to be a tenant farmer on the same land, and when Zack brings Lucas' wife Molly into his big house to care for his son Roth after his wife dies in childbirth, the relationship between them festers to the point of erupting into homocidal violence. To his credit, Zack comprehends the other's rage.
Note:
The McCaslin-Priest genealogy on William Faulkner on the Web lists the year of Zack's birth (maybe to parallel Lucas"?), but I can't locate a specific reference--TMT
CUT: He is the son of Cass and Alice Edmonds and the great-great grandson (on the "distaff" side, 5) of the patriarch Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin. Zach was raised alongside Lucas Beauchamp and brought Lucas's wife, Molly, into his home to care for his son, Roth, when his wife died in childbirth.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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