Unnamed Negro Laundresses 2
Character Key Number:
1935
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Unnamed Negro Laundresses 2
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Unnamed Negro Laundresses 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Quentin's narrative in "That Evening Sun" begins by evoking the "Negro women" who used to carry the clothes they had washed for their white customers in bundles on their heads (289); now they fetch and deliver it in automobiles or have lost their jobs to commercial laundry services.