Unnamed People of Frenchman's Bend 2
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1992
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Unnamed People of Frenchman's Bend 2
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Unnamed People of Frenchman's Bend 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The rural and poor hamlet of Frenchman's Bend appears or is referred to in 18 different Yoknapatawpha fictions; this entry focuses on one of the texts that characterizes the people who live there as a group. "The "folks," as Suratt calls the poor farmers and their families in "Spotted Horses" (165), congregate at Varner's store or the horse auction, and provide a kind of audience for Flem Snopes' rise from tenant farmer to the son-in-law of the hamlet's richest man.