Unnamed Jefferson Townspeople

This group represents unnamed people who live in town rather than out in the county. At one point the narrator characterizes them generationally: "younger citizens of the town" who know Luke Provine only as a healthy, shiftless man who “makes no effort whatsoever to support his wife and three children,” and "older men who remember the Butch . . . Provine of twenty years ago," when he still possessed a "driving, inarticulate zest for breathing which has long since burned out of him" (64).