Unnamed Sewing Women

Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Tue, 2017-03-21 14:33
Text: 
"Elly"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Sewing Women
Display Name: 
Unnamed Sewing Women
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Sewing Women
Race: 
Indeterminable
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Domestic Service
Specific Job: 
Seamstress
First Mentioned: 
Elly's Home in "Elly" (Location)
Biography: 

The sewing women make the trousseau for Elly's wedding, coming to her house daily after the engagement is announced. Their race is not specified, which typically means 'white' in Faulkner's fiction, but at the same time domestic workers in the fiction are typically 'black,' so we have chosen to call these women's race unknown.

Individual or Group: 
Group
Character changes class in this text: 

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