Unnamed Musical Saw Player
Character Key Number:
1712
Display Name:
Unnamed Musical Saw Player
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Unnamed Musical Saw Player
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
While never seen nor (unlike the band the traveling show brings to Jefferson) even heard, the performer who "can play a tune on a saw" (15) is mentioned or (when Luster spends so much of Easter trying to imitate him) alluded to in all four sections of The Sound and the Fury. He is perhaps the novel's figure of the artist.