The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

One of the two "young" white men (the other is Hub) who spend an evening with Young Bayard, along with Reno and two other young black men, drinking, driving and serenading ladies out of and in Jefferson. Mitch sings "Goodnight, Ladies" in a "true, oversweet tenor" voice (143). He is a "freight agent" (140), and may be the same character as Mitch Ewing in "Hair."

She stands in the doorway of her small house and watches Hub, Suratt and Young Bayard as they leave to go to town. There is apparently reproach in her look, but in her "flat country voice," she speaks only one word, "Hub" (138).

The diffident "young man" (according to Miss Jenny, at least) who does not know what to do after she hands in a telegram for Bayard, without knowing, as he does, that Bayard has died (392).

A short-tempered veteran of World War I, introduced by Eustace Graham as a man who was "up on the British front last spring" (125). The narrator refers to him as "the stranger," meaning that he is not from Yoknapatawpha (125).

"A young lawyer" who doesn't realize Young Bayard is drunk (125), he tries to introduce Sartoris to a fellow veteran named Gratton, and then works to smooth Gratton's ruffled feathers after the Bayard ignores him.

Deacon Rogers owns the store and restaurant on the Square. His physical description is striking: "His head was like an inverted egg; his hair curled meticulously away from the part in the center into two careful reddish-brown wings, like a toupee, and his eyes were a melting passionate brown" (120). His demeanor is ingratiating. In the second novel, only his cafe is mentioned, not him.

The "younger of the two negroes" who work in the restaurant that occupies the back half of Rogers' store. He has a "broad untroubled" and "reliable sort of face" (120). In return for serving setups to Young Bayard and Rafe MacCallum, they share some of Henry MacCallum's moonshine whisky with him.

He is the beggar sitting in front of Rogers' restaurant, "a man of at least forty" who is wearing a motley collection of uniforms and playing a guitar and harmonica (which the narrative calls a "mouthorgan," 118). The narrative describes what he plays as "a plaintive reiteration of rich monotonous chords, rhythymic as a mathematical formula but without music" (118).

The son of I. O. Snopes; his "hulking but catlike presence" (235) makes Bryon Snopes nervous after Bryon moves in with I.O.

"A nimble, wiry little man with a talkative face like a nutcracker," I.O. is the Snopes whom Flem Snopes brings to Jefferson to run the restaurant (235). Byron Snopes moves in with him after leaving the Beard Hotel.