Unnamed Federal Agent
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Unnamed Federal Agent
Sort Name:
Unnamed Federal Agent
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Administrative
Specific Job:
Federal Investigator
First Mentioned:
Origin:
The North
Biography:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not begin investigating bank robberies until the Depression, a decade after the Sartoris bank was robbed. But Faulkner is almost certainly thinking of the F.B.I. when he has Narcissa identify the man with whom she has sex as "a Federal agent" who came into possession of the letters she is anxious to get back while pursuing "the man who had robbed the bank" (740). The narrative describes him as "bald" and "youngish" with "a clever face"; based on how he looks and talks, Miss Jenny immediately labels him a "Jew" and a "Yankee" (736), and refuses to sit at the dinner table with him.
Ethnicity:
Jewish
Individual or Group:
Individual
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