Miss Jenny

Identified as "the great aunt" of Narcissa's husband, "Miss Jenny" is "a woman of ninety" who lives "in a wheelchair" (23). Here she is a much less prominent character than in either Flags in the Dust or "There Was a Queen" (where she plays the "queen"), but Jenny Du Pre remains intellectually vigorous and conversationally tart. The only biological Sartoris left (except for Narcissa's 10-year-old son) she may be running the large family estate, but her main role in the novel is to offer incisive commentary on both Narcissa and Horace's behavior.