Unnamed Suitors of Little Belle
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1906
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Unnamed Suitors of Little Belle
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Unnamed Suitors of Little Belle
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In Sanctuary Horace refers to the various young men who have been calling on his step-daughter Little Belle as "Louis or Paul or Whoever" (13). Horace seems to believe there have been many such suitors, "alert and a little impatient," sharing the hammock in the grape arbor with her in ways he finds very disconcerting (13-14), but Horace's ideas about Belle's sexuality are hardly reliable.