Unnamed Southern "Aristocrats"
Character Key Number:
3196
Display Name:
Unnamed Southern "Aristocrats"
Sort Name:
Unnamed Southern "Aristocrats"
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The cotton economy created what Requiem for a Nun calls "its own parasitic aristocracy," which includes "merchants and bankers" and "lawyers" as well as the planters who live "behind the columned porticoes of the plantation houses" (179).