Old Lady Wyatt
Character Key Number:
507
Display Name:
Old Lady Wyatt
Sort Name:
Wyatt, Old Lady
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Miss Wyatt is Emily Grierson's great-aunt in "A Rose for Emily," and reputed to have been insane: she went "completely crazy at last" (123), the narrator says, but provides no further details, about either her or her illness. Emily's father and her other "kin in Alabama" have a falling out "over the estate of old lady Wyatt" after she dies (125). (There are six other characters named Wyatt in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, but whether or how this woman is related to any of them is not established.)