# Will Cody — The Mule-Bone character guide

> Will Cody in The Mule-Bone by Langston Hughes.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Cody, Cody Ai, Willie, Willie Aw, ole Cody

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

## Snapshot

A porch loafer and cane-chewer, Will Cody trades in the small change of village talk — needling, remembering, and keeping the old stories alive.

## Who they are

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 Orange County by reputation if not by sight, and who measures a story by how well it can be topped. His easy mockery and long memory help establish the play's communal rhythm, the ground against which Jim and Dave's louder contest plays out.

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