Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Mon, 2013-06-24 13:25
The "son and brother" of the well-to-do family of Issetibbeha's mother presumably also has some "Negro blood," as she does (321). But his behavior links him to the upper class: after Doom gets his sister pregnant, he seeks him out "with a pistol" (318) to avenge the family's honor. Years later, however, as the "maternal uncle" of Doom, the child she bears, this brother "conducts" his nephew on a trip abroad, to Paris and elsewhere in Europe (320).
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Thu, 2013-06-20 23:32
The woman referred to only as "Mother" in this story is named Caroline elsewhere. She opposes her husband's decision to allay Nancy's fears that Jesus is waiting to harm her by accompanying Nancy to her cabin. As the narrator, her son Quentin never describes his mother, but her spoken words characterize her as the querulous, self-centered person readers meet in The Sound and the Fury (1929): "You'll leave me alone, to take Nancy home?" she complains (293).
