# The Mule-Bone — Character guide

> Key figures in The Mule-Bone by Langston Hughes.

- [Daisy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/daisy.md): Daisy Taylor moves through Joe Clark's store and porch as the town's most watched young woman, keenly aware of how she looks in starched voile and how quickly gossip travels. She is caught between Jim Weston's sharp-tong
- [Jim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/jim.md): Jim Weston is the kind of man who plays guitar on the store porch and expects the conversation to bend his way, slightly arrogant and always ready with a retort. His rivalry with Dave Carter over Daisy Taylor sharpens ev
- [Dave Carter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/dave_carter.md): Dave Carter is the easy counterweight to Jim Weston's sharpness — a dancer who moves through Joe Clark's store and porch with a loose, agreeable warmth that the town finds disarming. He is slightly dumb and slow with wor
- [Lige](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/lige.md): Lige Mosely belongs to the chorus of men who chew sugarcane, whittle, and trade stories on Joe Clark's porch, and he is one of its sharpest observers. He needles and embellishes — remembering the mule that turned through
- [Lum Boger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/lum_boger.md): Lum Boger is about twenty, tall and flat-footed, and the title of town marshal sits on him awkwardly — he is more eager to be seen than to enforce anything. He belongs to the porch crowd around Joe Clark's store, where s
- [Walter Thomas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/walter_thomas.md): Walter Thomas is one of the two village wags who anchor the store-porch banter, trading barbs with Lige Mosely while the men chew cane and pass around a mule's hock-bone. He is the one who says the dead mule was so skinn
- [Frank](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/frank.md): Frank belongs to the loose brotherhood of men who chew sugarcane, whittle, and argue away Saturday afternoons on the store porch, part of the chorus that makes Eatonville's gossip feel like weather. He has no single erra
- [Will Cody](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/will_cody.md): Will Cody sits among the men on Joe Clark's porch, one of the many voices that turn a Saturday afternoon into a running vaudeville of mule lore and neighborhood scandal. He is the kind of man who knows every hock-bone in
- [Mrs. Roberts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/mrs_roberts.md): Mrs. Roberts belongs to the town's married women, the ones who parade in starched dresses past the cane-chewing men and whose opinions carry weight in the social ledger of Eatonville. Her world is domestic and watchful; 
- [Joe Clark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/joe_clark.md): Joe Clark runs the general store and post office that serve as the town's stage, and his porch is where every rumor, trade, and tall tale gets its hearing. Arrogant, ignorant, and powerful in a self-assertive way, he is 
- [Mrs. Clark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/mrs_clark.md): As Joe Clark's wife, she occupies the peculiar position of being married to the store, the post office, and the mayor all at once, which makes her both privileged and perpetually put-upon. Her high-pitched voice and flab
- [Hambo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/hambo.md): Hambo is one of the deacons and old heads who anchor Joe Clark's porch, a man whose mild 'Well, did you git any partridges?' is the straight line that sets up Joe Lindsay's joke about feathers flying off the birds. He wa
- [Lindsay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/lindsay.md): Lindsay moves through Joe Clark's store as a church deacon and neighbor, trading jokes about Brazzle's contrary old mule while nursing his own grievances about stinginess and an empty stomach. He is quick to laugh at ano
- [Elder Simms](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/elder_simms.md): Elder Simms arrives in town as the Methodist congregation's fresh hope, determined to make his mark against the long-settled Baptist influence and Mayor Clark's swagger. He believes a good argument from Genesis to Revela
- [Sister Lucy Taylor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/sister_lucy_taylor.md): Sister Lucy Taylor holds court on Joe Clark's porch, trading barbs with Sister Thomas about Daisy's reputation and the men who coddle the Baptist side. She is fierce about church loyalty and quick to name hypocrisy, whet
- [Sister Thomas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/sister_thomas.md): Sister Thomas bustles between porch gossip and her supper greens, but her mind is on the trial and the Methodist-Baptist war behind it. She sees through Clark's talk of stolen hens and knocked heads, insisting his real t
- [Hen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/hen.md): A minor character mentioned in the narrative.
- [Mattie Clark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/mattie_clark.md): A minor character, possibly related to the mayor.
- [Hawk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/hawk.md): A minor character with a nickname.
- [Old Man Matt Brazzle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mule_bone_se/characters/old_man_matt_brazzle.md): An older minor character in the community.

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