Mrs. Rouncewell
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Mrs. Rouncewell
Sort Name:
Rouncewell, Mrs.
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Sales and Service
Specific Job:
Florist
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
Gavin Stevens' determination to send a corsage to Eula Varner Snopes begins what Charley Mallison calls the "Mrs Rouncewell panic" (81). Mrs. Rouncewell is Jefferson's florist: "She ran the flower shop; not . . . because she loved flowers nor even because she loved money but because she loved funerals; she had buried two husbands herself and took the second one's insurance and opened the flower shop and furnished the flowers for every funeral in Jefferson since" (73). (In three other texts the name Rouncewell is associated with a boarding house, not a flower shop, but we are presuming this character is the same "Mrs. Rouncewell" who runs the boarding house in The Mansion.)
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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