The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Preston Jones
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: 1962
- Setting: Bradleyville, Texas
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Tradition, South or Southerners, Prejudices or antipathies, West, U.S., Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Small-town life, Texas
- Locales: Bradleyville, TX
Characters Discussed
Ramsey (Ramsey-Eyes) Washington Blankenship, the elderly black custodian of the Cattleman’s Hotel. He is an obliging, amiable widower who finds the mumbo jumbo of the Knights of the White Magnolia more amusing than threatening. At seventy-five years of age, he is set in his ways and content with his simple life. He lacks racial bitterness, despite the fact that the Knights, excepting Colonel Kinkaid, treat him with contempt. Although slow and shuffling, he is not the ignorant and illiterate fool they take him to be. In the breakup of the last meeting of...
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