# Joshua Bye — There Is Confusion character guide

> Joshua Bye in There Is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** black Joshua Bye, Joshua, old black Joshua Bye, Old Joshua

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

An elderly Black servant of the Bye family, a link to their Southern past.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/there_is_confusion_se/chapters/iii)

Black Bye who learns to write from Aaron Bye; peasant type who believes in a superior class; father of Isaiah.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/there_is_confusion_se/chapters/iv)

Old Joshua Bye is Isaiah's father, who died before Isaiah's marriage. He was proud of his son Isaiah for refusing to work for white folks.

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