Ingersoll
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Ingersoll
Sort Name:
Ingersoll, Robert
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Dead
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Sunday, August 11, 1833
Origin:
New York
Biography:
Historically, Robert Green Ingersoll was a late 19th-century orator and philosopher nicknamed "The Great Agnostic," whose rejection of Christianity was widely discussed in his day and in Faulkner's. In this story, he acts mostly as a sounding board for the Judge's lifelong uncertainty regarding God and the afterlife; he listens to what the Judge says about his life and ideas, but he does not offer any solutions or answers, merely telling the Judge to follow the young woman and "Look into her face" (791).
Ontological Status:
Historical/Real
Individual or Group:
Individual
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