Unnamed Galveston Brothel Madam
Character Key Number:
2581
Display Name:
Unnamed Galveston Brothel Madam
Sort Name:
Unnamed Galveston Brothel Madam
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
This is the woman whom The Hamlet refers to as the "curl-papered landlady" in El Paso who tries to prevent Jack Houston from taking the woman who becomes his common law wife away from her house - but since the woman is a prostitute and the place the landlady runs is a brothel, it seems clear that "landlady" is a euphemism for 'madam' (234).