Mrs. Winterbottom

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2020-01-17 15:59
Character Key Number: 
1514
Display Name: 
Mrs. Winterbottom
Sort Name: 
Winterbottom, Mrs.
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In Flags in the Dust the woman who owns the boarding house in Jefferson where the two carpetbaggers are staying is named Mrs. Winterbottom. According to Will Falls' story about the event, she stands "gapin' after him with her mouth open" when Colonel Sartoris goes up to their room and shoots them both (243). (The third time Faulkner tells this story, in "Skirmish at Satoris" and again in The Unvanquished, the hotel is owned by Mrs. Holston.)

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