Unnamed Negro Firemen
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Character Key:
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Unnamed Negro Firemen
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Unnamed Negro Firemen
AKA:
Tom Tom Bird
Tom-Tom
Turl
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Production
Specific Job:
Firemen
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Other Texts:
Biography:
Ratliff's reference to "them two mad skeered Negro firemen" and to the brass fixtures from the "powerhouse" (183) refer to the events Faulkner told first in the early short story "Centaur in Brass" (1931) and then retold in The Town (1957), the Snopes novel that was published two years before The Mansion. There they are given names: Tom-Tom (or Tom Tom Bird) and Turl (or Tomey's Turl Beauchamp). Here they are merely referred to. The title "firemen" in this case means they keep a fire going, not that they put fires out.
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Group
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