Unnamed Cotillion Guests

The Jefferson couples who receive invitations to the Cotillion Dance represent the most socially approved people in town. Charles describes their appearance as "crimped and frizzed in scarves and earrings and perfume and long white gloves like Mother or in claw-hammer coats and boiled shirts and white ties and yesterday's haircuts like Father and Uncle Gavin" (75-76). Many were reluctant to include Eula and Flem Snopes on the list of invitees; during the ball, they are described as aghast at the way Manfred de Spain and Eula Varner Snopes dance together with "splendid unshame" (79).