Mrs. McEachern
Character Key Number:
3040
Display Name:
Mrs. McEachern
Sort Name:
McEachern, Mrs.
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
Joe Christmas' foster-mother in Light in August, Mrs. McEachern, is a small, timid woman, a "patient, beaten creature without sex demarcation," who looks fifteen years older than her husband and who has been hammered "into an attenuation of dumb hopes and frustrated desires now faint and pale as dead ashes" (147, 165). She tries without success or acknowledgement to provide what she thinks Joe wants and needs.