Unnamed Aunt of Minnie Cooper
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1752
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Unnamed Aunt of Minnie Cooper
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Unnamed Aunt of Minnie Cooper
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In "Dry September" Minnie Cooper's "thin, sallow, unflagging aunt" lives with Minnie and her mother in a "small frame house" (173). After Mrs. Cooper starts "keeping to her room," this "gaunt aunt runs the house" (175).