Unnamed Negro Girls and Women
Character Key Number:
2949
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Girls and Women
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Girls and Women
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
According to Intruder in the Dust, on a typical evening one would see "Negro girls and women" outside the window of the jail, talking with the black men who are confined inside it (38). Even though the exceptional circumstances of the story have kept them away and in hiding, the narrator describes them as "the women in the aprons of cooks or nurses and the girls in their flash cheap clothes from the mail order houses" (50).