Otis Harker

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2020-01-29 09:41
Character Key Number: 
2051
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Otis Harker
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Harker, Otis
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In The Town Otis is "nephew or cousin or something" of the Harker who is the engineer at the town's power plant. Although he has "inherited the saw mill" that the older Harker originally ran, Otis fills in at the power plant "whenever Mr. Harker wanted a night off" (26). By the end of the novel he has become Jefferson's "night marshal"; Gavin Stevens calls him one of Yoknapatawpha's "minor clowns" (334).

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