Mr. Nightingale
Character Key Number:
3445
Display Name:
Mr. Nightingale
Sort Name:
Nightingale, Mr.
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Mr. Nightingale in The Mansion is "a little scrawny man who wouldn't weigh a hundred pounds" even holding all the tools of his trade (201). His trade is shoe repair, "cobbling" (201). He is also a "Hardshell Baptist" who believes the earth is flat, and an ex-Confederate and unreconstructed Southerner who was "seventeen years old" at Appomattox when Lee surrendered. He gets very upset when his son joins the "Yankee" army to fight in World War I (202).