Washington

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2020-04-08 15:23
Text: 
The Sound and the Fury
Character Key: 
George Washington
Display Name: 
Washington
Sort Name: 
Washington, George
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
Occupation: 
Management
Specific Job: 
Planter, General, President
First Mentioned: 
Cambridge Inset: Harvard University in The Sound and the Fury (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Friday, February 22, 1732
Origin: 
Virginia
Biography: 

Quentin associates "Washington not telling lies" with "Jesus walking on Galilee" (80). Jesus walks on water in the New Testament. The mythic claim that even as a boy George Washington, the first President of the U.S., 'could not tell a lie' was created by an early biographer and educator named Parson Weems, who thought that the story of young Washington and the cherry tree he chopped down would be edifying for the young men of the early American republic.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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