Unnamed Doctor 7
Character Key Number:
809
Display Name:
Unnamed Doctor 7
Sort Name:
Unnamed Doctor 7
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
There are over a dozen Jefferson physicians in the fictions, but the doctor in the story "Uncle Willy" is invented by Willy as a way to get his rich sister in Texas to buy him a car. According to Willy's letter to her, this doctor prescribes a car as a way to save Willy from having "to walk back and forth to the store" in his fragile health (235). According to the narrator, Willy wants the car in order to get to the moonshine stills in the hills outside Jefferson and to the brothels in Memphis.