Unnamed Planter Women
Character Key Number:
2449
Display Name:
Unnamed Planter Women
Sort Name:
Unnamed Planter Women
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The upper class women in the Tidewater are represented in Absalom! by two who never come completely into view: the carriage that almost runs down one of Sutpen's sisters contains "two parasols," and "two faces beneath the parasols" that "glare down" at the poor white girl (187).