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Dad:
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Daingerfield,
Miss: One of the girls present at Mrs.
Bland's picnic on the day Quentin
Compson committed suicide in The Sound and the
Fury.
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Daisy: Wife of Uncle
Ash in Go Down, Moses ("The Bear"). Major
de Spain suggested he enjoyed going to the hunting camp in the woods to
escape Daisy's cooking.
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Damuddy: The
grandmother in The Sound and the Fury, and
whose death marked the earliest recorded event in the novel. It was during
her wake that Caddy Compson
climbed a pear tree to see what was going on inside the house.
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Dan ("Afternoon of a
Cow"):
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Dan (Go Down, Moses):
One of the lotmen working for Roth
Edmonds in Go Down, Moses ("The
Fire and the Hearth").
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Dan ("Race at
Morning"):
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Dan (Sartoris/Flags in
the Dust):
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Dan (The Sound and the
Fury):
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Dandridge, Miss
Maggie:
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De Montigny (The
Wild Palms):
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De Montigny (A
Fable):
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de Spain, Lula: The
wife of Major Cassius de Spain whose
expensive imported rug was ruined by Ab
Snopes in "Barn Burning"
and The Hamlet.
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de Spain, Major
Cassius, I: A perennial, yet peripheral, figure in Yoknapatawpha
County. Father of Manfred de Spain, he
served as a major in the Confederate Army. In Absalom,
Absalom!, he was sheriff in 1869 when Wash
Jones killed Thomas Sutpen
along with Jones' own granddaughter
and great-granddaughter. Soon after, he bought and restored the fishing camp
along the Tallahatchie River
where Jones had been living. In Go Down, Moses,
he was the host for the annual hunting trips, including the one in which Old
Ben, the bear, is killed. He later sold most of the property to a lumber
company. In "Barn Burning" and
The Hamlet, a disagreement with tenant
farmer Ab Snopes over a soiled rug
led to his barn being burned down. He appears also in Intruder
in the Dust, The Town, The
Mansion, The Reivers, and "A
Bear Hunt." In addition, a Major de Spain who is grieving over the
wartime death of his son is depicted in "Shall
Not Perish."
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de Spain, Major
Cassius, II: Apparently, the son of old Major
de Spain in "A Bear Hunt" and
the present host of the hunting camp who helped support the family of Lucius
Hogganbeck. He may also be the Major de Spain who was grieving over the
wartime death of his son in "Shall
Not Perish."
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de Spain,
Manfred: The bachelor son of Major
Cassius de Spain and a key figure in the latter two volumes of the Snopes
trilogy. He was a graduate of West Point and a veteran of the
Spanish-American War, serving as a second lieutenant in Cuba. He became
mayor of Jefferson in 1904 as
automobiles began to replace horse- and mule-drawn wagons, and he continued
to play a role in banking and politics. In The Town,
he took Flem Snopes' wife, Eula,
as a mistress, rewarding Flem by making him superintendent of the power
plant. Manfred successfully fended off his chief rival for Eula's affection,
city attorney Gavin Stevens. Upon
the death of old Bayard Sartoris
in 1920, he became president of the Sartoris Bank, a position he held until
Flem revealed his long-standing affair with Eula to Eula's father, Will
Varner; subsequently, Manfred was forced to sell his bank shares to Flem.
He planned to leave Jefferson with Eula, but before he could do so, she
committed suicide. Nevertheless, he left Jefferson "for business
reasons and health." He appears also in The
Mansion and The Reivers, where it
is revealed he was the first person in Jefferson to own an automobile. See
also Major Hoxey.
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de Spain, Mrs.: The
wife of young Major de Spain in "A
Bear Hunt."
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de
Vitry, Chevalier Soeur Blonde: A Frenchman, formerly of Paris, who
in New Orleans became the patron of Ikkemotubbe
and instilled in him the desire to become chief. He named Ikkemotubbe "L'Homme"
or "Du Homme" — French for "The Man" — which was
anglicized to "Doom." He accompanied Ikkemotubbe when he returned
to the plantation after seven years in New Orleans. De Vitry appears in
"The Old People" section of Go
Down, Moses, "Red Leaves,"
and "A Courtship."
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Deacon: An elderly
black train porter to whom Quentin
Compson entrusted his suicide letters in The
Sound and the Fury. According to Quentin, he supposedly "hadn't
missed a train at the beginning of school in forty years, and ... he could
pick out a Southerner with one glance." He marched in all the parades
in Cambridge and was one of few people whom Quentin trusted.
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Delphine: Fourth
and final wife of Ned McCaslin,
and cook for Sarah Priest in The
Reivers.
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The Delta: In
Mississippi, the term by which the common floodplain of the Mississippi
and Yazoo Rivers is known. It
stretches nearly 200 miles from the Tennessee line near Memphis to near Vicksburg
and is about 60 miles wide at its widest point. A mostly flat region with
rich black soil, bayous, sluggish streams, and oxbow lakes, and the
traditional location of large cotton plantations, it differs markedly both
in terrain and in way of life from the red clay hills of Yoknapatawpha
County. Faulkner refers to it in The Sound and
the Fury, Sanctuary, and especially
in the "Delta Autumn" section of Go Down,
Moses.
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Despleins, Jules:
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Devries, Colonel:
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Dick,
Colonel Nathaniel G.: Union Army officer who called a stop to the
search for two boys (Bayard
and Ringo) who had shot an army horse,
even though he knew they were hiding under Granny
Millard's hoopskirts. Later, he ordered the return of Granny's silver,
mules, and servants to her, with considerable interest due to a clerical
error.
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Dilazuck:
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Dilsey: See Gibson,
Dilsey.
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[A divining machine
salesman]: A salesman who came to Yoknapatawpha
County at the request of Lucas
Beauchamp, who wanted a metal detector to find a legendary stash of gold
coins supposedly hidden somewhere on Roth
Edmonds' place in "The Fire and the Hearth" (Go
Down, Moses). By hiding a stash of his own money on the place, Lucas
was able to trick the salesman into buying back the metal detector to search
for the rest of the money himself.
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Doc (Sanctuary):
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Doc (The Wild Palms):
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Dodge, Granby: An
itinerant Mississippi preacher and sometime horse and mule trader, and a
distant relative of Cornelia
Mardis Holland. He killed Cornelia's husband Anse,
and he hired a Memphis gangster to shoot Judge
Dukinfield in "Smoke."
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Dollar:
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Doom: See Ikkemotubbe.
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Dough, James: Nephew
of Mrs. Wardle and World War I
veteran who lost a leg and maimed his arm during two years' service as a
corporal pilot with a French chassé escadrille in Soldiers'
Pay. He was a spectator at Mrs.
Worthington's dance.
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Downs, Mrs.:
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Drake, Hubert:
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Drake, Judge:
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Drake, Temple:
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"A Drummer" (The
Sound and the Fury: A traveling salesman in Jefferson
whom Jason Compson met in the
front of Earl's store and with
whom Jason had a conversation about cotton speculating. When Jason told him
he might be a Jew, he said, "No ... I'm an American."
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Du Pre, Virginia
Sartoris: (1839-1929) Youngest sister of Colonel
John and Bayard Sartoris,
born in "Carolina" in 1839. She married a man named Du Pre, who
was killed in the Civil War, so that when she came to live the Sartorises in
Mississippi in 1869 (according to Flags in the Dust),
at the age of thirty, she had been "two years a wife and seven years a
widow." Indomitable and strong-willed, she comes to run the Sartoris
household and outlives all of the Sartoris
men except for Benbow Sartoris,
her great-great-grandnephew. She is often called "Aunt" or
"Miss" Jenny. She appears in Sartoris/Flags
in the Dust, Sanctuary (where she
is referred to as "Genevieve" Du Pre), The
Unvanquished, Requiem for a Nun
(where she is called "Mrs. Depre"), The
Town (where she is called old
Bayard's sister, though elsewhere she is his aunt), "All
the Dead Pilots" (in which she is referred to by her maiden name,
Sartoris) and "There Was a Queen."
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Dukinfield,
Judge: A judge in Jefferson.
In The Town, he was to try the case of Gavin
Stevens against Manfred de Spain
(brought on when Flem Snopes took
the brass from the valves in the power plant, and Gavin used this as a
pretext to impeach the mayor), but he turned the case over to Judge
Stevens, Gavin's father. He later became the executor of the estate of Anselm
Holland Sr., and while in the process of probating it was shot to death
in his office, thus offering Gavin an opportunity to show off his brilliant
detective work in "Smoke." He is
referred to in The Mansion.
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