Unnamed Sheriff(1)

The unnamed county sheriff who arrests Lucas is described by the narrator as "a tremendous man, fat" (62). When Lucas thought about him earlier in the story, he calls him "a redneck without any reason for pride in his forbears nor hope for it in his descendants” (43). There are two other Yoknapatawpha sheriff's in the novel, Sheriff Maydew in "Pantaloon in Black" and a second unnamed one in "Go Down, Moses." They are essentially contemporaneous, but the text does not suggest any connection between any of them - so we have created three separate "Sheriff" entries.