Lorraine

Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-05-01 23:10
Text: 
The Sound and the Fury
Character Key: 
Lorraine
Display Name: 
Lorraine
Sort Name: 
Lorraine
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Criminal
Specific Job: 
Prostitute
First Mentioned: 
Memphis in The Sound and the Fury (Location)
Other Texts: 
"Appendix: Compson"
Biography: 

Lorraine is the woman Jason is seeing in Memphis, Tennessee. In the letter she sends him, she calls Jason "my sweet daddy" (193). Their relationship seems based on the money he gives her and the sex she gives him. Jason thinks of her as "a good honest whore" (233). His ideas about other people, especially women, are hardly reliable, but in this case it does seem likely that Lorraine is one of the many Memphis prostitutes in Faulkner's fiction. She is given to drinking beer.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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