Unnamed Negro Woman Wearing Christmas' Shoes
Character Key Number:
2153
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Woman Wearing Christmas' Shoes
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Woman Wearing Christmas' Shoes
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
This is the woman in Light in August who trades "a pair of her husband's brogans" to Joe Christmas in return for his shoes (329). She is 'captured' anticlimactically when the Sheriff's dogs follow the scent of the shoes to the cabin next to a corn field where she and her family live; when the armed posse kicks open the door she drops the iron skillet she was holding.