Old Lady Wyatt

Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 13:10
Text: 
"A Rose for Emily"
Character Key: 
Old Lady Wyatt
Display Name: 
Old Lady Wyatt
Sort Name: 
Wyatt, "Old Lady"
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
First Mentioned: 
Grierson House in "A Rose for Emily" (Location)
Cause of Death: 
Disease
Biography: 

Miss Wyatt is Emily Grierson's great-aunt, and reputed to have been insane: she went "completely crazy at last" (123), the narrator says, but provides no further details, about either her or her illness. Emily's father and her other "kin in Alabama" have a falling out "over the estate of old lady Wyatt" after she dies (125).

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

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