Sheriff Watt Kennedy
Character Key Number:
3039
Display Name:
Sheriff Watt Kennedy
Sort Name:
Kennedy, Sheriff Watt
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The county sheriff in Light in August is named Watt Kennedy. Described as a "fat, comfortable man" (287), "with little wise eyes like bits of mica embedded in his fat, still face" (420), he investigates the murder of Joanna Burden and pursues Joe Christmas across the countryside (287). Like so many other characters in this novel, he never appears elsewhere in the Yoknapatawpha fictions.