Three Unspecified Snopeses
Character Key Number:
280
Display Name:
Three Unspecified Snopeses
Sort Name:
Snopes, Three Unspecified
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
During Flem's funeral at the end of The Mansion, Gavin Stevens notices three people whom he has never seen before, and he knows almost immediately that "they are Snopeses," with "country faces" that make him think of "wolves come to look at the trap where another bigger wolf . . . died" (463). These are the last members of the family Faulkner creates, and as an anonymous group they seem meant to suggest how futile is the effort to defeat 'Snopesism.'