McKinley Grove
Character Key Number:
3030
Display Name:
McKinley Grove
Sort Name:
Grove, McKinley
Parent Character Key:
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In Light in August McKinley Grove brings his twelve-year-old sister Lena to live with his family in Doane's Mill, Alabama, after the death of their parents. He is "just forty" years old and "twenty years her senior" (5), which gives him a birth date in 1892. "He was a hard man": when his wife tells him that Lena is pregnant, he "calls her whore," (6), after which Lena leaves Doane's Mill in search of her baby's father.