Carothers McCaslin's Father
Character Key Number:
206
Display Name:
Carothers McCaslin's Father
Sort Name:
McCaslin, Father of Carothers
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
This is one of the characters in Go Down, Moses who only appear in the ledgers of the McCaslin plantation. There the entry for "Roskus" and "Fibby," written by Ike's father Buck McCaslin, mentions that Roskus was "rased by Granfather in Callina," and that Fibby was "bought by granfather in Callina" (252). This Carolina ancestor, the father of "Old Carothers" McCaslin and so the great-grandfather of Ike, is not mentioned any where else in the novel.