Sophie Starnes
Character Key Number:
1983
Display Name:
Sophie Starnes
Sort Name:
Starnes, Sophie
Parent Character Key:
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In "Hair," Sophie Starnes is the daughter of landowners in Alabama. She is said to be a "thin, unhealthy" girl, with "straight hair not brown and not yellow" (139). Over her mother's objections, she becomes engaged to Henry Stribling - AKA Hawkshaw - the "son of a tenant farmer" (138). Before they can marry, however, Sophie dies of "some kind of fever" (138).