Pomp

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2020-01-31 10:33
Character Key Number: 
3045
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Pomp
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Pomp
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
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In Light in August Pomp (presumably short for 'Pompey') is Cinthy's husband and the first Gail Hightower's slave. Though called "boy," he is older than his master, and is completely bald (471). He follows his master to war and refuses to believe that he could have been killed in the cavalry raid in Jefferson. Pomp himself is reportedly killed after attacking "a Yankee officer with a shovel" in an attempt to see or perhaps rescue "Marse Gail" (476-77).

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