Mrs. Will Varner
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Mrs. Will Varner
Sort Name:
Varner, Mrs. Will
AKA:
Maggie Varner
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
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Biography:
Eula's mother is described by Gavin as a "big hard cold gray woman who never came to town anymore now [in 1927], spending all her time between her home and her church" (306). In Gavin's hypothetical account in Chapter 17, she is portrayed as outraged over the 'discovery' of her daughter's eighteen-year affair with Manfred de Spain, though Eula tells Gavin later that she thinks her "Mamma . . . has known all the time" (345). Also according to Gavin, Mrs. Varner has complete control over the "terrified congregation" in the church: she hires the ministers herself, "firing them too when they didn't suit her" (306).
Individual or Group:
Individual
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