Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Summary and Analysis: Act I, Scenes 1-2

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Bertha Holly: the wife of the boardinghouse owner

Seth Holly: the ornery owner of the boardinghouse and a skilled craftsman

Bynum Walker: a rootworker, or conjure man

Rutherford Selig: a white peddler and people finder

Jeremy Furlow: a young man staying at the boardinghouse

Herald Loomis: a former sharecropper and chain gang laborer who is looking for his long-lost wife

Zonia Loomis: the eleven-year-old daughter of Herald Loomis

Mattie Campbell: a lonely young woman looking for stable...


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