Mrs. Bland 1

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2019-08-03 13:35
Character Key Number: 
438
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Mrs. Bland 1
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Bland, Mrs. 1
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

In The Sound and the Fury Mrs. Bland is the mother of Quentin's Harvard classmate Gerald; she has moved from Kentucky to Cambridge to be close to her son. She lays claim to an aristocratic heritage, and in person is both formal and insistent. Shreve calls her "fate in eight yards of apricot silk" (106).

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