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Acey: A black member
of the mill gang in Go Down, Moses
("Pantaloon in Black"). At Mannie's
funeral, he tried to console Rider with
"a jug in de bushes," then when Rider was about to go home, he
said what he did not intend to say: "You dont wants ter go back dar.
She be wawkin yit."
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Acheron:
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Adams:
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Adams, Mrs.:
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Adams, Theron:
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[Addie
Bundren's Father]:
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Akers: A coon hunter
who stumbled over one of Thomas
Sutpen's "wild Negroes" and was bewildered by their speech and
behavior in Absalom, Absalom!.
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Albert: A worker at
Moseley's drugstore in As
I Lay Dying. He told Moseley about the Bundrens'
wagon with the coffin containing Addie's
decaying body and about Anse's
purchase of cement to make a cast for Cash's
broken leg.
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Albert:
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Alec, Uncle: Husband
of Rider's aunt
in Go Down, Moses ("Pantaloon in
Black"). He was waiting for Rider at the sawmill with a peach pie which
his wife had baked for Rider, and he tried to convince Rider to come home
with him during his grief over his wife's
death.
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Alford, Dr.: A
doctor in Jefferson who treated Bayard
Sartoris and was interested in Narcissa
Benbow in Sartoris/Flags
in the Dust. In As I Lay Dying, MacGowan
at first referred Dewey Dell
Bundren to Dr. Alford when Jody told
him there was a woman to see "the doctor that works here."
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Alice:
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Alice Ben Bolt: A
three-year-old, eleven-hundred-pound mare mule owned by Roth
Edmonds which Lucas Beauchamp
traded for a "divining machine" in Go
Down, Moses ("The Fire and the Hearth"). The previous
spring, Roth Edmonds had been offered three hundred dollars for the mule,
but he turned it down.
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Allanovna, Myra:
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Allen, Bobbie:
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Allison, Miss:
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Ames, Dalton: A
young man who seduced Caddy Compson
in The Sound and the Fury. He may have been
the father of Caddy's illegitimate daughter, Quentin.
Caddy's brother Quentin
threatened to kill Dalton Ames and tried to beat him up, but he failed at
both. In his section of The Sound and the Fury,
Quentin confused his flashbacks of his encounter with Dalton Ames with a
present-day encounter with Gerald
Bland, who also beat him up.
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Anse: The first name
of the town marshal in the area outside Boston where Quentin
Compson went the afternoon he killed himself in The
Sound and the Fury.
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Armstead: Also
spelled "Armstid." According to Gavin
Stevens in Intruder in the Dust, a
family name in the Frenchman's Bend
area of Yoknapatawpha County. The
name appears (as "Armstid") on the map
included in Absalom, Absalom!. See Armstid;
Armstid, Henry.
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Armstid: A farmer
in the Frenchman's Bend region
of Yoknapatawpha County. The name
(without a given first name) is used in both As I
Lay Dying and Light in August and
may be synonymous with the Henry Armstid of the
Snopes trilogy (The Hamlet, The
Town, and The Mansion). In As I
Lay Dying, he gave shelter to Anse
Bundren and his family when their mules drowned in the flooded Yoknapatawpha
River. He also serves as narrator of one of the chapters. His wife in
this novel is named Lula. In Light
in August, he gave a ride and an overnight stay to the pregnant Lena
Grove, much to the consternation to his wife (here, as in the Snopes
trilogy, named Martha). An Armstid without a
first name also appears in "Shingles
for the Lord."
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Armstid, Henry: A
farmer in the Frenchman's Bend
region of Yoknapatawpha County,
and a father of four. Against his wife's wishes he insisted on buying one of
the spotted horses brought from Texas
by Flem Snopes and was later
injured by one of them. He was again swindled by Flem Snopes when he, along
with V. K. Ratliff and Odum
Bookwright, was tricked into buying the Old
Frenchman's Place to dig for buried treasure. He eventually ended up in
the state asylum in Jackson. He may be the Armstid
with no given name of As I Lay Dying and Light
in August. He appeared in The Hamlet,
"Spotted Horses," and "Lizards
in Jamshyd’s Courtyard," and is referred to in The
Town and The Mansion.
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Armstid, Lula: The
name of Armstid's wife according to As
I Lay Dying.
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Armstid, Martha: The
name of Armstid's wife in Light
in August and Henry Armstid's wife in The
Hamlet. A Mrs. Armstid with no given first name also appears in
"Shingles for the Lord."
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Ash, Uncle: The
elderly black cook at Major de
Spain's annual hunts. Shortly after Ike
McCaslin shot his first deer, Uncle Ash announced that he wanted to go
on a hunt and shoot a deer himself, to which Major de Spain agreed. He owned
four shells of his own — one buckshot, one rabbit-shot, and two bird-shot
shells, all of them very old. On the way back to camp with Ike, he
encountered a yearling bear, and the inexperienced Ash shot at it, but the
bear got away.
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Avant, Jim:
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