Unnamed Negro Cook 7
Character Key Number:
614
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Cook 7
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Cook 7
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In The Hamlet, during the two months they occupy their new house the Houstons hire a "negro woman to cook" for them (238). Besides the woman who cooks for the Varners, she is "the only other hired cook, white or black, in the country" (238).