# Lindsay — The Mule-Bone character guide

> Lindsay in The Mule-Bone by Langston Hughes.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Lindsay To Hambo, Joe Lindsay, Enter Joe Lindsay, Reenter Joe Lindsay, Deacon Lindsay, Lindsay Go

**First appearance:** 0002-act-i

## Snapshot

A deacon who trudges home from the hunt with a mule's hock-bone instead of birds, and a hunger that makes him sharp about who feeds whom.

## Who they are

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 another man's troubles but quicker to name his own hunger, and his tongue turns sharp when the sisters give him the cold shoulder. His running commentary on the mule-bone and the town's feuds keeps him woven into the daily talk that sets the play's comic and social weather.

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